The expansion of jihadism from the Sahel to the Gulf of Guinea

After Benin, Ivory Coast and Togo, is Ghana next?

Like dominoes, country after country, after the Sahel, the influence of jihadism through groups like JNIM, is gradually taking hold in the area of ​​the Gulf of Guinea, in West Africa. There is talk of JNIM, the affiliate of Al Qaeda, because its strategy of leaving aside global jihad to focus on the local level seems to be having some success, but it is not the only group, we must also take into account the branch of Daesh. After Ivory Coast, Benin and Togo, Ghana is another of the territories in which armed groups move and establish their networks, although without violent attacks to this day. A process in which various factors interact, with more than one cause, and whose solution is not quick nor, of course, does it seem easy. So far, the expansion of jihadism in the region has not been able to be stopped.

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