Togo’s Foreign Minister Robert Dussey said last week that at least 54 civilians have been killed this year by Jama’a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (JNIM), a terrorist group affiliated with al-Qaeda.
Dussey’s remarks during an interview with Reuters represented one of the few official acknowledgements of Togo’s growing terrorism problem. Jihadis tied to al-Qaeda and the Islamic State have been spreading across the region ever since the juntas that rule Niger, Burkina Faso, and Mali cut ties with Western governments and shut down their counter-terrorism operations, but Togo remained relatively unscathed until recently.
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