The rate of such attacks in North Africa, Sub-Sahara, Sahel, and Horn of Africa has been rising in recent months. Pertinently the Western coalition to fight terrorism (that defeated Daesh) in Syria and Iraq was diluted after 2017. French connectionThe only active force now fighting this terrorism threat in Africa is a small French force in the Sahel and West Africa region. America had an African force with a drone base in Niger that killed dozens of Daesh terrorists in Libya in September 2019. In fact, the rising terrorist threat in Africa requires a coalition even more wider and forceful than the one formed to combat Daesh in Syria and Iraq.

Source: The North Africa Journal January 30, 2020 11:03 UTC