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Africa - In the Line of Fire: Jihadist-Sponsored Conflicts Within Africa and the Security Implications Beyond the Continent

Africa - In the Line of Fire: Jihadist-Sponsored Conflicts Within Africa and the Security Implications Beyond the Continent

Venter, Al J.

Hardcover

African HistoryGeneral World HistoryOther Wars

Publisher Price: $37.95

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ISBN10: 1636243274
ISBN13: 9781636243276
Publisher: Casemate
Published: Mar 31 2027
Pages: 320
Language: English
Examines Africa's escalating conflicts, highlighting Jihadist insurgencies and their regional and global security implications.

Africa currently faces more wars, insurgencies, army mutinies, coups d'état and rebellions than at any time since World War II. Conflict in all forms has become endemic, now accentuated by a relative newcomer: Jihadism, increasingly linked to either Islamic State or al-Qaeda.

The year 2020 saw a record high in state-based conflicts on the African continent: around 22,000 incidents of armed conflict recorded. There were two dozen country-based military struggles recorded, three or four more than in 2018. Of these, 13 battled over territory, the highest number ever. Incidents of conflict have risen each year since, and the broader canvas since Russia's invasion of the Ukraine suggests things will continue to worsen. Islamic Jihadist forces are responsible for much of this, involved in a succession of conflicts in Africa. These range all the way across the Sub-Sahara swathe, Mauretania, Mali, Burkina Faso and Chad, the Sudans as well as Somalia. A more recent entrant to the fray is Tanzania, whose Dar es Salaam government in late 2021 appealed to the European Union for military help to counter an escalating Jihadist insurgency in its southern province.

The upward trend is sobering. And there are long-term security implications both within and beyond Africa--if conditions do deteriorate, Europe will ultimately be threatened. Veteran war correspondent Al Venter brings his decades of experience to illuminate what Islamic Jihadist forces are effecting in Africa, and why, and what the future may hold.

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