SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA IS THE WORLD’S TERRORISM HOTSPOT AND MILITARY MIGHT ALONE WON’T SOLVE THAT, ACCORDING TO THE UN
Steve Balestrieri | February 16, 2023
Violent Islamic extremism is growing the fastest in Sub-Saharan Africa with 48% of global terrorism deaths in 2021 happening there, according to the UN Development Program (UNDP).
The driving force behind the continuous growth of terrorist organizations in the region isn’t religion but financial reasons as many of the young people join them as they believe that the terrorist groups offer them a better chance of getting employment, according to the latest report by the UN Development Program (UNDP).
UNDP Administrator, Achim Steiner, said that the lack of income, job opportunities, and livelihoods mean that “desperation is essentially pushing people to take up opportunities, with whoever offers that.”
UNDP interviewed nearly 2,200 people, including over 1,000 former terrorists, from Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Somalia, and Sudan.
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