LONDON — Terrorism is skyrocketing across the troubled African continent, with almost 24,000 deaths in 2025 blamed on terror-related violence —a 24% increase over the previous year, according to recently released statistics. According to Pentagon-backed research from the Africa Center for Strategic Studies released in April, there were 23,968 terrorism-related fatalities across Africa in 2025, with almost every region seeing a marked increase. The Sahel — a semi-arid belt between the Sahara