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The accident was the worst loss for a European country in the Sahel since the beginning of anti-terrorism operations in 2013. [170] December 1 – 2019 Burkina Faso church attacks: Militants attacked a church in Foutouri, Burkina Faso, killing 14 people and wounding dozens more. [171]
The Islamic State – Sahel Province [a] (ISSP), formerly known as Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (IS-GS), is an Islamist militant group adhering to the ideology of Salafi Jihadism. IS-GS was formed on 15 May 2015 as the result of a split within the militant group Al-Mourabitoun .
The war is part of the wider insurgency in the Sahel. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] In August 2024, jihadists began to close in on the Barsalogho Department city of Kaya , which represented the last defensive line between the terrorists and Burkina Faso's capital of Ouagadougou .
Terrorism and organized crime by violent extremist groups linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State are a “pervasive threat” in Africa's volatile Sahel region and are spilling over to West ...
The Islamic State extremist group poses a rising threat amid political instability in West Africa and the Sahel and remains intent on carrying out attacks abroad, the U.N. counter-terrorism chief ...
The United States warned Friday that the string of military takeovers in Africa’s Sahel region will hamper the fight against terrorism and demanded that Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers deny safe ...
Following the end of Operation Serval, France recognised the need to provide stability in the wider Sahel region by helping the region's various governments combat terrorism. The former French Defense Minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian , said that France recognised that "there still is a major risk that jihadists develop in the area that runs from ...
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the U.S. strategy was to ensure the Sahel-based threat doesn't spread south to Ghana, Ivory Coast, Benin, Togo and other countries in coastal ...