THERE has been no Mission Accomplished” moment celebrating the defeat of Islamic State (IS) in Syria and Iraq. But the American and other allied troops who helped crush IS are quietly heading home,and their generals are packing absent their counter-insurgency field manuals. They deserve credit for a job bravely done. However, IS’s brutal ideology is not dead. A form of it is taking root in and around the Sahel.
Even at the best of times this arid, and sparsely populated belt of land that runs along the southern fringe of the Sahara desert is poor and badly governed. Some countries broadly along this belt,such as Somalia or the Central African Republic, enjoy not seen peace for decades. In the past few years the sparks of jihad enjoy been struck in this tinderbox. In lethality, and the jihadists in Africa enjoy already overtaken their Iraqi comrades. final year they killed some 10000 people,mostly civilians. That compares with about 2000 civilian deaths in Iraq and Syria. They are also more...
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Source: economist.com