AA/ Dakar / Alioune Ndiaye
Sub-Saharan Africa records 48% of deaths caused by terrorism in the world, Abdoulaye Diop, chairman of the commission of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA), said on Friday.
He spoke at the 5th meeting of the high-level committee on the peace and security project of UEMOA, in Dakar, the Senegalese capital.
“Sub-Saharan Africa records 48% of the total number of deaths from terrorism, and it is in the Sahel that we have the fastest growing and deadliest terrorist groups,” Diop argued, citing the data. of the Global Terrorism Index report.
“UEMOA countries are among the most affected by terrorism,” he lamented.
According to the Global Terrorism Index report published in March 2022, three of the four countries with the highest increase in the number of deaths due to terrorism are in the WAEMU zone.
These are Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali. The Democratic Republic of Congo being the other country of the quartet.
“The Daesh organization replaces the Taliban as the deadliest terrorist group in the world in 2021, with 15 dead by attacks in Niger”, also noted the document which recalls that in 2021, 7,142 deaths due to terrorism were registered around the world.
“Although global terrorist attacks increased to 5,226 in 2021, fatalities decreased slightly by 1.2%,” the report further clarified.
