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Speaker at U.N. meeting urges African-led, rights-based counterterrorism strategy
Summary
An unnamed speaker at an international meeting called for African-led responses to rising terrorism across the continent, urged human-rights-based approaches, and highlighted recent attacks and statistics showing a surge in terrorism-related deaths in Sub‑Saharan Africa.
An unnamed speaker at a United Nations meeting on terrorism in Africa called for African-led, human-rights-based responses and for predictable funding to support regional efforts.
The speaker outlined the scale of the problem, saying Sub‑Saharan Africa now accounts for nearly 59% of global terrorism-related deaths, and that ‘‘for three straight years, terrorism-related deaths have soared past 6,000, making up more than half of all global fatalities.’’ The remarks cited sharp increases in violence in the Sahel and West Africa and pointed to recent attacks, including an assault on Jan. 8 that the speaker said killed at least 28 Benin soldiers and a Jan. 4 attack on a military base in Sabangiradambua, Nigeria, that left six soldiers dead.
The speaker said counterterrorism responses must address three priorities: tackling the drivers of radicalization and recruitment, applying human-rights‑based approaches…
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