BENIN : The government's anti-terrorism policy in its infancy - Africa Education

In Benin, insecurity has been increasing. Since January 2025, the country has been under attack by groups affiliated with Al-Qaeda. The most recent one, incidentally, is the deadliest, and which has taken the lives of 54 soldiers, according to the authorities, while the authors speak of a hundred dead. Yet the current strategy of securing the territory has not yet been called into question. Rather, Cotonou prefers to denounce the lack of securit…