SHERIF OMAR: Terrorism & the nature of the state and society in the Sahel and West Africa { THE FUTURE OF AFRICA TO BECOME The {New Afghanistan } ARTICLE NO.2#News247WorldPress

Recent terrorist accidents put West African countries on the facade of international news as a geostrategic area of the al-Qaida terrorist organizations seeking to re-build its influence there. It appears that these terrorist groups are able to translate the new strategy qualitative override the conventional method in the Sahel and West Africa.

The reasons for this development is objectively linked to societal structure and the nature of the states in the Sahel and West Africa;

Life in West African coast under a fragile political systems are not able to achieve national unity; it facilitates the emergence of separatist movements and armed nature of nations ..also religion is the reason for ethnic conflicts, leads these countries enter into religious – ethnic wars .
It has helped a variety of factors since the nineties of the twentieth century to bring about some change to the nature of the religious mystic Kadria movement, or Tijania movement associated with the Moroccan and Mauritanian mysticism, and took a hard-line conservative tendencies is expanding dramatically interesting.
Turning up at the beginning of the third millennium to put the dramatic emergence of terrorist movements linked to the Algerian, Somali and Nigerian organizations too.

In spite of this shift, the overall path of religiosity still devotes «popular Sufi Islam» in Niger, where the Muslim population is 60 % and adhere to the Sunni Maliki doctrine.

The same applies to Burkina Faso, where Muslims Maliki doctrine Sufis by nature; where they plays a system «chiefdom» There prominent role in the made up of people of social pattern (the tribe) Mossi, a Muslim majority, in addition to the Fulani and Almandine, as well as from Alsanobo tripes. beside the presence of the the Arab Maghreb Tamazight with assets, in the human map of where Muslims make up about 75 % of the total population.

they share the same religion and nature, but also the challenges of the Muslim majority, which is considered «Francophone» and what it calls «secular elites» of France ..

On the other hand, political regimes known to this area between Libya and Chad, Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso, widespread corruption and a lack of democracy and the rule of vulnerable severe institutional. Most of these countries do not have effective control over the geographical boundaries, and most of the national territory, which makes there «authority over the capital and its environs» only.

Communities at Sahel and West African are suffering from the bad economy and social conditions are very difficult, which turned to produce new phenomena linked to terrorism and organized crime.

Financial Resources for the Terrorist groups

Terrorist groups, been able to create a complex entanglement with international crime organizations, especially those active in human trafficking, drugs and arms smuggling .
Organizations, such as al-Qaida and «AL Morabtoun» took advantage of this situation to strengthen its financial resources, to acquire weapons, been helped by alliances with some of the people (ethnic) and tribes scattered in desert areas such as the Tuareg in Mali, and those close to the sea in Somalia, or Grand lake in Chad.
Al-Qaida, and AL Morabtoun has created a financial independence, allow them to do recruitment and payment of salaries, and appeal to the youth of the important tribes geographically and ethnically. According to the United Nations report of the «United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime» that organized crime carried out by terrorist groups operations make around 3000 to 4000 million dollars a year.

That big amount of money are spread between the incomes of the smuggling of goods, drugs, weapons and ransoms in exchange for freeing the hostages.

It strengthens the terrorist organizations thorn in the Sahel and West Africa, the spread of the phenomenon of arms; until it became the weapon does not know turn the border is not subject to the control of the national state.

Since the middle of the first decade of the third millennium has spread a new phenomenon has fueled the aspirations of terrorist trends, which is called «ant trade» (The Ant trade), under which lawfully being the purchase of arms in one state and then redistributed illegally relies smuggling in countries other.

This hazardous activities intertwined with the global drug trade, all the countries of West Africa and the Sahel , the arms trade come across the sea to Benin and Togo as a starting point, plus about 14% – 20 % of the cocaine reaching Europe via West Africa.

It is strange that the drug trade is not crossing the desert or the sea only, but the Airports Ouagadougou, Bamako and Niamey, Niger’s capital, next to Algiers, is the points for this activity.

Terrorist organizations such as «Qaeda» and «Morabtoun» as an organized crime and international arms trade has benefited, as well as the collapse of the regional system the fall of Muammar Gaddafi and his regime.

I HOPE I HAD GIVEN GOOD INFORMATIONS ABOUT THE REALITY IN WEST AFRICA .

MY FINAL WORD { HEALTH CARE , EDUCATION , HOSPITALS MIGHT HELP ALOT IN SOLVING THE SITUATION IN WEST AFRICA }

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