Africa-Press – Namibia. Earlier in the week, the Australia-based Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) released its annual Global Terrorism Index, where it turned out that five African nations rank among the top ten most impacted by terrorism, while fatalities from terror attacks in Africa’s Sahel region have surged by over 2,000% in the past 15 years.
The best way for African countries to stop the spread of terrorism, especially in the highly-destabilized Sahel region, is through cooperation between different nations across the continent instead of relying on foreign forces, says Dr. Mady Ibrahim Kanté, lecturer at the Faculty of Administrative and Political Sciences of the University of Legal and Political Sciences of Bamako.
Kante believes that the phenomenon of terrorism started in the African Sahel as a result of the failure of terrorist groups in the Middle East, including Al Qaeda* in Afghanistan and Daesh* in Iraq and Syria, to implement their ideology. According to the expert, the two terrorist organizations found better ground in the Sahel.
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