West Africa: Radicalization in the Francophone Space

opinion

I have often wondered if terrorism were not an itinerant phenomenon. In other words, a mutant that moves from one continent to another and from one country to others.

In the 1960s, the Tupamaros brought turmoil to Latin America, then the Red Brigades did the same in Italy, the Baader Band in Germany and the Red Army in Japan. Thereafter, the Middle East and Asia regions have followed with their own brands of terrorists. Then it was Africa turn but in regional stages: Eastern, Northern, and now, the Sahel Sahara area.

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