Leaders and experts at a U.N. meeting pointed to Africa as a global epicenter of terrorism with thousands of attacks and deaths each year.
The U.N. Global Counterterrorism Coordination Compact – which brings together dozens of U.N.-affiliated organizations and member nations – was holding a two-day meeting until Friday to address the rising violence and spread of terrorist networks in Africa.
Each day, an average of eight terror attacks and 44 terrorism-related deaths occur on the continent, about twice the rate from 2017 to 2021, according to the African Union's African Center on the Study and Research on Terrorism based in Algiers, Algeria.
Geopolitics — Africa — United Nations (U.N.) — U.N. Office of Counterterrorism (UNOCT) — African Union (A.U.) — African Center on the Study and Research on Terrorism (ACSRT) — Algeria — United States (U.S.) — Somalia — Congo — Mozambique — African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) — U.N. Security Council (UNSC)
