Spike in Islamist Terrorism in Africa Threatens US, Experts Say

Published on February 14, 2024

Terror-related deaths in Africa reached a record high in 2023 on the back of the withdrawal of thousands of French troops from areas where groups affiliated with the ISIS terrorist group are embedded, according to new research. The Center for Strategic Studies (CSS) at Fort McNair in Washington said that fatalities linked to militant Islamist violence increased by 20 percent in the past year, from 19,412 in 2022 to 23,322. This represented a near doubling in deaths since 2021. Eighty-three percent of the deaths were in the Sahel, the arid semidesert containing Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, where military juntas forced French troops to leave in 2023, and in Somalia, large parts of which are controlled by the al-Shabaab terror group....

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