What is fueling rampant terrorism in sub-Saharan Africa? | DW News

In the year 2021, global terrorism claimed the lives of over 7,000 people - nearly half of them in sub-Saharan Africa. And that threat still exists, particularly in the Sahel region. But what's fueling it?
A new report says the main driver of violent extremism in sub-Saharan Africa is mainly the lack of jobs. The UN Development Program interviewed
more than two thousand people in eight countries stretching from Burkina Faso to Somalia. Half of them were former members of violent extremist groups.
And the insecurity in the countries surveyed isn't just affecting their own populations. It's creeping across borders. For example, Burkina Faso became the center of a jihadist insurgency in West Africa after violence spilled over from neighboring Mali. Since 2015, thousands of Burkinabe have been killed and 2 million displaced. Many of those who flee the conflict find refuge with their neighbors across the border. The hosts offer what they have. But as DW correspondent Maxwell Suuk reports from Widnaba in Northern Ghana, there's goodwill in abundance but even that's not enough.

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