Africa | July 20, 2023
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On 11 May 2022, Togo was attacked by violent Islamic militants for the first time in two years. A report by Africa News on 12 May quotes a senior military official who said that about 60 heavily-armed men on motorcycles ambushed an outpost in Kpinkankandi, located in the north, near the border with Burkina Faso. Eight government soldiers were killed and 13 wounded. A similar attack in November 2021 was repelled by government forces and led to no fatalities.
World Watch Research analyst Yonas Dembele comments: “The attack in northern Togo confirms what has been long feared: It was only a matter of time before jihadist operations spilled over from neighboring Burkina Faso and Nigeria. Although Togo has a more manageable border with Burkina Faso in the north, and Benin and Ghana to the east and west respectively, the attack exemplifies that the country is not immune to the jihadist threat. The Christian community is not small, standing at 48.1% of the population (WWR, Full Country Dossier, February 2022, p.9), and now hopes that more will be done to prevent violent Islamic ideology taking root in the country.”
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