The Quarterly Africa Terrorism Bulletin- First Quarter 2022

From the Lake Chad Basin (LCB) to the Sahel Region and West Africa, from the East and Horn of Africa to the Great Lakes Region, and from the North Africa and the Maghreb to the Southern Africa Region, terrorist and violent extremist groups escalated the level of the complexity and sophistication of attacks. [...] The persistent attacks in Northern Benin, the expansion of Boko Haram activities into Niger State, the resurgence of Islamic State atrocities in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt, the devastating complex attacks of Al-Shabaab in Somalia and in Lamu, Mandera and Garissa counties of Kenya, the expansion of Separatist attacks into Far North Region of Cameroon, the renewed sophisticated attacks against sec. [...] The complexity of attacks and the resultant lethality could conveniently be linked to the political instability in the Sahel, and to a larger extent the announcement of the redeployment of troops involved in the operation Barkhane and the slow deployment of Task-Force- Takuba. [...] The easy to make nature of IEDs, the accessibility and availability of materials for such devices and transfer of technology in the manufacturing of IEDs among terrorist groups could account for the widespread use of IEDs across the continent. [...] From the Lake Chad Basin (LCB) to the Sahel Region, from the East and Horn of Africa to the Great Lakes Region, and from the North Africa and the Maghreb to the Southern Africa Region, terrorist and violent extremist groups escalated the level of the complexity and sophistication of attacks.