An arc of instability that spreads farther across Africa could endanger far bigger economies including Ghana and Nigeria and even become a base for extremism and terrorism beyond the continent’s shores
past decade a losing battle against violent jihadists, autocrats and insurgents has been raging across the Sahel, an arid and dirt-poor zone in western Africa. That struggle has reached a crisis point after
The scale of the jihadist disaster in Africa is daunting. As well as the Sahel, militants control vast stretches of north-eastern Nigeria and Somalia. In total, these areas are home to more than one in ten sub-Saharan Africans. In the 12 months to June more than 22,000 Africans died in jihadist-related violence, 50% more than in the preceding year and double the number killed in Iraq in 2014 when Islamic State was at its peak.
For the rest of Africa and the outside world one option now is to do nothing: after all, repeated efforts to control extremism and establish stable governments in the Sahel have failed. The trouble is the threat, which has been consistently underestimated, is no longer geographically confined.
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