Africa's Sahel region  is a terrorism hot spot, according to the latest Global Terrorism Index published by the Institute for Economics and Peace. About 51% of global terror-related deaths are recorded in the Sahel, where two  al-Qaeda -linked groups are expanding. Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal Muslimeen (JNIM) and the so-called Islamic State groups are behind the wave of terror in the Sahel, especially in  Burkina Faso , Mali  and Niger . These groups are increasingly spreading south and

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