The 2019 Open Doors World Watch List (WWL) warned of an \u201cincrease in sub-Saharan Africa militia\u201d of Daesh (ISIS), which had dispersed after losing territory in the Middle East.<\/p>\n
According to the Christian organisation, \u201cinstability, corruption, poverty, unemployment and lack of governance\u201d are an ideal scenario for the growth of radical Islamism, which has also \u201cinstrumentalised existing identity-based conflicts to forge alliances to strengthen their base and widen the risk they pose to global security\u201d.<\/p>\n
A year later, several countries in the Sahel region that were not on the open Doors WWL until now, have become part of the document. Burkina Faso, Niger and Cameroon are some of the territories in which the increase of violence is closely related to the rise of the presence of jihadism in the area.<\/p>\n
The International Observatory of Studies on Terrorism has reported that, while in March 2019, coinciding with the defeat of Daesh in Baguz, its last territory in Syria, there were 28 jihadist attacks in the Maghreb and Sahel regions, with a total of 153 deaths. In January 2020, there have already been 77 attacks and 502 deaths, most of them in Burkina Faso, Mali and northern Nigeria.<\/p>\n