{"id":4808,"date":"2023-02-09T10:13:21","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T10:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/?p=4808"},"modified":"2023-02-09T10:13:21","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T10:13:21","slug":"terrorist-attacks-in-sub-saharan-africa-have-more-than-doubled-since-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/2023\/02\/09\/terrorist-attacks-in-sub-saharan-africa-have-more-than-doubled-since-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrorist attacks in sub-Saharan Africa have more than doubled since 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6><em>The United Nations Development Program is concerned that the shift of activities by violent extremist groups from the Middle East and North Africa to sub-Saharan Africa has received relatively a little attention from the International community.<\/em><\/h6>\n<p>Deaths from terrorism have declined over the past five years worldwide, while attacks in sub-Saharan Africa have more than doubled since 2016, says the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) which counts 4,155 attacks in 2017 to 2021, killing more than 18,400 people.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, almost half of terrorism-related deaths were in sub-Saharan Africa, with more than a third in just four countries in this region &#8211; Somalia, Burkina Faso, Niger and Mali &#8211; &#8220;the new global epicenter of &#8216;violent extremism&#8217;, according to UNDP chief Achim Steiner.<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations Development Program is concerned that the shift of activities by violent extremist groups from the Middle East and North Africa to sub-Saharan Africa has received relatively a little attention from the International community.<\/p>\n<p>Nirina Kiplagat, UNDP Regional Advisor, on her part calls on local communities to play a central role in supporting sustainable pathways out of violent extremism, alongside amnesty programs put in place by governments.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that a UN report indicates that the lack of employment more than religious ideology allows violent extremists to attract more and more recruits in sub-Saharan Africa. The findings of the UN survey of nearly 2,200 men and women were based on interviews conducted in 2021 and early 2022 that targeted eight countries: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Somalia and Sudan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations Development Program is concerned that the shift of activities by violent extremist groups from the Middle East and North Africa to sub-Saharan Africa has received relatively a little attention from the International community. Deaths from terrorism have declined over the past five years worldwide, while attacks in sub-Saharan Africa have more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-africa","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}