Advisory firm MEA Risk LLC released a brief to its client suggesting that the instability in Burkina Faso and neighboring countries will likely escalate going forward. The MEA Risk note says Burkina Faso is a complex place and likely the weakest country in the Sahel. Since April 2019, armed Islamist groups have killed more than 250 civilians in targeted attacks and summary executions. Borders are tough to control and terror groups appear to have a clearer strategy of broadening and regionalizing the crisis, that is working to spread it around. This means with the crisis engulfing Mali, the terror groups have been working to export the mayhem to Niger, Burkina, Chad and northern Nigeria.

Source: The North Africa Journal January 21, 2020 17:48 UTC