Death toll from militant Islamist groups in Africa surpasses 150 000 over last decade - defenceWeb

Death toll from militant Islamist groups in Africa surpasses 150 000 over last decade - defenceWeb

Militant Islamist groups in Africa have led to the deaths of more than 150 000 people over the last decade, and continue to be highly active agents of instability across five theatres on the continent, new research has found. The Africa Center for Strategic Studies (ACSS) in a new report found that between 2016 and 2019, there were 10 774 fatalities a year on average due to militant Islamist groups, primarily in the Sahel, Somalia, Mozambique, N…