Source: International Christian Concern, January 16, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n
About 400 million people inhabit the Sahel, a narrow strip of the vast African continent hugging the Sahara desert\u2019s southern reaches and stretching from Senegal\u2019s Atlantic coastline in the west to the Red Sea in the east. The Sahel is a region plagued by extreme poverty, deep civil unrest, and rampant extremism that threatens to eradicate the very fabric of society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In many parts of the region, law and governance have been practically abolished, supplanted by terrorist forces intent on establishing their vision of an Islamic caliphate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Terrorist groups in the Sahel are increasingly taking the place of failed governments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read the full story<\/a>. Not exactly \u201cnew\u201d news, is it? But there have been some recent developments. See some helpful articles (from Justin Long\u2019s Weekly Roundup): West Africa\u2019s junta-led nations announce deployment of a joint force as extremist violence spikes<\/a> (AP) and Nigeria\u2019s cocoa industry in shambles as farmers battle theft, violence<\/a> (Human Angle).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: International Christian Concern, January 16, 2025 About 400 million people inhabit the Sahel, a narrow strip of the vast African continent hugging the Sahara desert\u2019s southern reaches and stretching from Senegal\u2019s Atlantic coastline in the west to the Red Sea in the east. The Sahel is a region plagued by extreme poverty, deep civil … Continue reading African Sahel: Extremism in the Desert of Danger<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13614,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13613\/revisions\/13614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}