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Sharp rise in number of Islamist militant attacks in Africa
Attacks concentrated in Somalia, with Nigeria and Mali as the second most-prominent theatres of Islamist militant activity
Sub-Saharan Africa suffers under a sharp rise in the number of Islamist militant attacks. In its report Changing Patterns in Terrorism and the Threat to Business, Control Risks (www.ControlRisks.com), the specialist global risk consultancy, finds that the number of incidents rose from 317 in 2013 to 1,549 for the period…