L’état d’urgence a été déclaré dans huit régions du Burkina Faso, à compter du 30 mars 2023.
La mesure d’état d’urgence concerne 21 provinces (sur les 45 que compte le pays) réparties dans huit régions (sur les 13 régions) du Burkina Faso où les groupes armés terroristes mènent régulièrement des opérations contre les populations civiles et l’armée.
Selon le dernier rapport de l’indice 2023 du terrorisme mondial, le nombre de victimes d’attaques terroristes dans la région du Sahel a augmenté de plus de 2 000 % au cours des 15 dernières années. Le Burkina Faso est le 1er pays sur le continent et le 2ème pays au monde le plus touché selon l’Indice mondial du terrorisme (GTI) 2023, un rapport publié par l’Institut pour l’économie et la paix (IEP).
Refugees arrive in some of Europe’s poorest states, mainly Greece, Italy and Hungary, but insist that they have a right to head for more prosperous nations where welfare benefits are higher and healthcare freely available.
The political history of Muslim states has often been restricted to two options. They have either been ruled by nationalist (“secular”) oppressive regimes, or Islamist oppressive regimes. Unfortunately, many people in Middle East have so much affinity for political Islam that they do not realize that political Islam is the root cause of their problems. That attitude is the main reason they cannot get rid of their backward and violent regimes, or make cultural or scientific progress.
The surge in Germany’s Muslim population — propelled by a wave of migration unprecedented since the Second World War — represents a demographic shift of epic proportions, one that critics of the country’s open-door immigration policy warn will change the face of Germany forever.
More than 50,000 jihadists are now living in Europe. — Gilles de Kerchove, EU Counterterrorism Coordinator.
Europol, the European police office, has identified at least 30,000 active jihadist websites, but EU legislation no longer requires internet service providers to collect and preserve metadata — including data on the location of jihadists — from their customers due to privacy concerns. De Kerchove said this was hindering the ability of police to identify and deter jihadists.
“Most migrant terrorists involved in thwarted or completed attacks were purposefully deployed to the migration flows by an organized terrorist group to conduct or support attacks in destination countries.” — Todd Bensman, “What Terrorist Migration Over European Borders Can Teach About American Border Security”, Center for Immigration Studies.
“Molenbeek would love to be forgotten, because it is the very example of the failure of the multicultural society, which remains an untouchable dogma in Belgium”. — Alain Destexhe, honorary Senator in Belgium and former Secretary General of Doctors Without Borders, Le Figaro, May 3, 2022.
The infighting between the US volunteers who went to Ukraine to fight Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022, when President Volodymyr Zelensky called for help, is undermining the war effort.
Justin Scheck, an international investigative reporter, and Thomas Gibbons-Neff, the Ukraine correspondent, in an article in The New York Times (NYT) said that after a year of combat, many of these homespun groups of volunteers are fighting with themselves and undermining the war effort.
These posters reportedly contain threats of murder against men and women, including accusations of failing to pay “zakat” (Islamic tax) and other charges.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) war monitor on Tuesday reported that ISIS cells in the Arab-majority Deir ez-Zor province are spreading fear among civilians by hanging posters on walls, mosques, and electricity poles.