Terrorists have killed more than 150,000 people across Africa over the past decade, with most of that violence taking place in the Sahel, Somalia, and the Lake Chad basin, according to new research by the Africa Center for Strategic Studies.

Since 2016, when Somalia was the focal point for terrorist violence, the number of attacks, terrorist groups and regions affected have grown. Many of those groups claim allegiance to al-Qaida or the Islamic State group (IS).

The death count escalated rapidly after coups in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger. Those coups were driven to some degree by claims that the military would succeed at defeating terrorists after democratically elected governments had failed to do so.

So far, however, the situation in all three countries only has gotten worse. Burkina

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