Botswana needs terrorism threat alert advisory system

African regions such as the Sahel, Lake Chad Basin and Horn of Africa are not the only ones considered new theaters of terror activity but the phenomenon has expanded to West Africa’s coastal states, Central Africa and Southern Africa.

The 2020 Global Terrorism Index shows that seven out of 10 countries badly affected by terrorism in the world are from Africa with the sub-Saharan Africa being the second region in the world affected by deadly terrorism superseding the Middle East.