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| Africa Subsaharan |
| Exploiting a crisis: How Benin became the new frontline for jihadists |
| 2022-07-17 |
| [DW] Northern Benin is at the center of a security crisis which has moved south from the Sahel. Poverty and climate change have provided fertile ground for criminals and bad boys. In Benin's ...Francophone West African country formerly known as Dahomey, it lies between Nigeria and Togo on the so-called Slave Coast, with Niger to the north and Burkina Faso to the northwest. Over half the population is Christian, a quarter are Moslem, and the remainder are divided between traditionalists or “None of your business, bub.” The main economic activity is subsistence farming, with cotton grown for export, which doesn’t provide much margin for fighting jihadis... mountainous Atakora Department in the country's northwest, the towns of Tanguieta and Porga are divided by three checkpoints. Today, this 60-kilometer (37 miles) stretch of road is frequently patrolled by armored vehicles: Between December 2021 and July 2022, Beninese security forces were attacked here four times by bad boys. |
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