Youth Discontent, Repressive Regimes Make Africa More Violent in 2024: Experts

JOHANNESBURG—From north to south, east to west, Africa is riven with conflict to a degree last seen during the 1990s when wars, and genocide in Rwanda and Sudan, killed millions, according to groups monitoring violence on the continent. After a series of coups, the military now governs four countries in the Sahel, the arid region that stretches from Mauritania in northwest Africa to Eritrea in the northeast. Jihadist groups linked to ISIS and al-Qaeda are sowing fear across the continent, with African governments and international partners—including the United States—unable to stop the spread of violent political Islam and subsequent attacks that often result in massacres....