NEW #Africa File | #BurkinaFaso’s latest coup on Sep. 30 indicates that the governance and security crisis in West Africa’s #Sahel region continues to deepen. @liam_karr @brian_cartr @EmilyCEstelle criticalthreats.org/briefs/africa-… 1/5 
Salafi-jihadi groups linked to #alQaeda and the #IslamicState have exploited cyclical violence and anti-government grievances to root themselves in local communities and steadily expand in the Sahel over the past decade. 2/5
The fallout from the Burkina Faso coup, like the 2020 and 2021 coups in Mali, will likely further reduce counterterrorism pressure and worsen the conditions that lead to Salafi-jihadi expansion. 3/5
Instability in #BurkinaFaso may aid ongoing #JNIM campaigns to consolidate its control of peripheral areas in Burkina Faso. 4/5
ISGS is strengthening and could benefit from instability that causes decreased counterterrorism coordination in the tri-border region. 5/5
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
