The current situation in North and Central Africa is highly explosive and poses certain risks not only to regional security but to Western Europe as well. The most radical Muslims of the CAR and members of the Central African illegal armed groups are already being recruited to participate in the fighting in North Africa and terrorist activities in the French-speaking countries of Europe (France, Belgium). The instability in the North of Africa and the threat of expanding terrorist organisations could be pretext for the expansion of an American military presence in North Africa, Libya and Sudan. Whoever is responsible for these moves, it is a fact that the emergence of a terrorist hub in North Africa would put pressure on the European Union. North Africa is of vital strategic significance and has all the elements necessary to accommodate a terrorist hub.

Source: The North Africa Journal May 21, 2021 07:41 UTC