Islamist attacks are spreading so fast in West Africa that the region should consider bolstering its response beyond current military efforts, and donors should back such a move, the head of the United Nations said. Groups with links to al Qaeda and Islamic State have strengthened their foothold across the arid Sahel this year, making large swathes of territory ungovernable and stoking local ethnic violence, especially in Mali and Burkina Faso.
Armed militancy is not confined to West Africa and its spread has been aided in many areas by poverty, corruption and state violence. Eleven people were killed last week in an ambush in a gas-rich province of northern Mozambique, the latest in a spate of execution-style attacks in the area.
http://news.trust.org/item/20190710141511-6a5sa/
Armed militancy is not confined to West Africa and its spread has been aided in many areas by poverty, corruption and state violence. Eleven people were killed last week in an ambush in a gas-rich province of northern Mozambique, the latest in a spate of execution-style attacks in the area.
http://news.trust.org/item/20190710141511-6a5sa/
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