Africa's Sahel: The region with more 'terror deaths' than rest of world combined

Africa's Sahel region accounts for more than half of terror-related killings, a new reports says.

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Its new report says that in this semi-arid area to the south of the Sahara Desert 3,885 people out of a worldwide total of 7,555 died.

The GTI report adds that while the global figure has declined from a peak of 11,000 in 2015 the figure for the Sahel has increased nearly tenfold since 2019, as extremist and insurgent groups "continue to shift their focus" towards the region.

The index is published by the Institute for Economics and Peace, a think-tank dedicated to researching global peace and conflict.

It defines terrorism as the "threatened or actual use of illegal force and violence by a non-state actor to attain a political, economic, religious, or social goal through fear, coercion, or intimidation".

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