Although the overall rate of conflict has remained steady in Africa during the pandemic, the nature of this is changing in subtle but significant ways.
have grown to attract external interest from Islamic State and Al Qaeda operatives in the Sahel, while internal threats from a resurgent Ansaru — a splinter group of Boko Haram — enters an already unstable situation rife with intercommunal conflict and “banditry”. In this case, as with other areas with high violence rates — in Somalia, the Sahel and the Democratic Republic of Congo — conflict has remained stable or increased in the face of a severe health crisis.
There are no records of new groups becoming active during the pandemic. But this is cold comfort, and likely to quickly change as people tire of restrictions, limitations and a silent pandemic.
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