Responding to the Rise in Violent Extremism in the Sahel

Abstract

The Sahel has experienced the most rapid increase in militant Islamist group activity of any region in Africa in recent years. Violent events involving extremist groups in the region have doubled every year since 2015. In 2019, there have been more than 700 such violent episodes (see Figure 1). Fatalities linked to these events have increased from 225 to 2,000 during the same period. This surge in violence has uprooted more than 900,000 people, including 500,000 in Burkina Faso in 2019 alone.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2019
Accession Number
AD1117091

Entities

People

  • Pauline Le Roux

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Asymmetric Warfare
  • European Union
  • Geographic Regions
  • Governments
  • Human Rights
  • International Organizations
  • Military Operations
  • Police
  • Radicalization
  • Security
  • Social Media
  • Societies
  • Terrorism
  • Terrorists
  • Training
  • Violence
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

Readers

  • International Relations, focusing on Korea-Africa and North Korea-South Korea relations, and Nigeria-Latin American Relations.
  • Political Violence and Terrorism Studies.