Africa’s Unique Vulnerability to Violent Extremism
Africa bears the brunt of lives lost, economies ruined, and relationships fractured by terrorism: in the past five years alone, 33,000 people have died in terrorism-related violence on the continent. New research by the UN Development Programme helps to explain why.
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ADDIS ABABA – Africa bears the brunt of lives lost, economies ruined, and relationships fractured by terrorism. It is the continent where al-Qaeda launched its war against the United States in 1998, by bombing the US embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; where Boko Haram kidnapped 276 Nigerian schoolgirls in 2014; and where 147 students were killed in their sleep at Kenya’s Garissa University in 2015.