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Terrorism index in African countries as of 2023

Characteristic	Index (0-10)
Burkina Faso	8.57
Mali	8
Somalia	7.81
Nigeria	7.58
Niger	7.27
Cameroon	6.98
Democratic Republic of the Congo	6.51
Mozambique	6.27
Kenya	5.62
Egypt	5.22
Chad	4.99
Benin	4.9
Togo	4.67
Uganda	4.38
Tunisia	2.91
Libya	2.47
Burundi	2.43
Tanzania	2.27
Angola	2.25
Algeria	2.2
Côte d'Ivoire	2.06
Djibouti	2.04
Central African Republic	1.45
Ethiopia	1.27
Eswatini	0.18
Rwanda	0.11
Botswana	0
Republic of the Congo	0
Eritrea	0
Gabon	0
Ghana	0
Guinea	0
Guinea-Bissau	0
Equatorial Guinea	0
Lesotho	0
Liberia	0
Madagascar	0
Malawi	0
Mauritania	0
Mauritiius	0
Morocco	0
Namibia	0
Senegal	0
Sierra Leone	0
South Africa	0
South Sudan	0
Sudan	0
The Gambia	0
Zambia	0
Zimbabwe	0

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February 2024

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Africa

Survey time period

2023

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The Global Terrorism Index measures the direct and indirect impact of terrorism, including its effects on lives lost, injuries, property damage and the psychological aftereffects. It is a composite score that ranks countries according to the impact of terrorism from 0 (no impact) to 10 (highest impact).

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Burkina Faso is one of the countries with the highest terrorism threat levels in the world. In 2023, the terrorism index in this West-African country stood at around 8.6, the highest in Africa. Furthermore, it recorded the largest number of deaths related to terrorism worldwide, followed by Mali, Somalia, and Pakistan, with some of the highest terrorism threat indexes in the world.

Jihadist fundamentalism in Africa

In Africa, several militant groups are active, leading to attacks on both civilian and military targets. In West Africa, among the deadliest groups, there are Boko Haram, JNIM, ISIS in the Greater Sahara, and ISIS-West Africa. The militant group of Al-Shabaab, a jihadist fundamentalist group as well, was responsible for 89 percent of all terror-related deaths in Somalia in 2021. Somalia has the third-highest number of terror-related deaths in the world and ranked second in Africa regarding threat level.

Boko Haram

Boko Haram, an affiliate of the Islamic State, has been responsible for thousands of deaths in Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, and Niger. Nigeria is the country most affected by the terrorist group's attacks. The terrorist groups aim to establish the Islamic State in Nigeria and to cancel Western education and influence in the country. Among the news on attacks mostly present in the media, the kidnapping of 276 female students from a secondary school in Borno in 2014 received a global response. As of January 2021, 112 girls were still missing, and six students were believed to have died. However, every month dozens of deaths are attributed to the brutality of Boko Haram.