WASHINGTON - According to a report published this week by the Pentagon’s Africa Center for Strategic Studies, terrorist activities carried out by Islamic extremists are on the rise in Africa, except for the Maghreb region. A total of 4,161 terrorist incidents were recorded, constituting a six-fold increase since 2011. Terrorist attacks, said the report, have escalated in four particular places: Somalia, the Lake Chad Basin, the western Sahel and Mozambique. A different trend is noted in the Maghreb region: “North Africa is the only theater that has seen a decline, continuing a trend since 2015,” it said. Their activity rose seven-fold to nearly 1,000 incidents since 2017.

Source: The North Africa Journal July 24, 2020 16:07 UTC