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    <p class="sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ">The Sahel region of Africa is the "epicentre of global terrorism" and now, for the first time, accounts for "over half of all terrorism-related deaths",...</p>
    <p class="sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ">Its new report says that in this semi-arid area to the south of the Sahara Desert 3,885 people out of a worldwide total of 7,555 died.</p>
    <p class="sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ">The GTI report adds that while the global figure has declined from a peak of 11,000 in 2015 the figure for the Sahel has increased nearly tenfold...</p>
    <p class="sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ">The index is published by the Institute for Economics and Peace, a think-tank dedicated to researching global peace and conflict.</p>
    <p class="sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ">It defines terrorism as the "threatened or actual use of illegal force and violence by a non-state actor to attain a political, economic, religious, or social goal through fear, coercion, or intimidation".</p>
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        <div data-testid="image" class="sc-a34861b-1 jxzoZC"><img src="https://www.bbc.com/bbczy/grey-placeholder.png" class="sc-a34861b-0 cOpVbP hide-when-no-script"/><img sizes="(min-width: 1280px) 50vw, (min-width: 1008px) 66vw, 96vw" srcset="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/240/cpsprodpb(...).webp 240w,https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/320/cpsprodpb(...).webp 320w...https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1536/cpsprodpb(...).webp 1536w" src="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/480/cpsprodpb(...).webp" loading="lazy" alt="A chart showing how the Sahel is responsible for more than half of global(&quot;terrorism deaths&quot;) as reported by the Global Terrorism Index" class="sc-a34861b-0 efFcac"/></div>
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Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp8vyl3j5kko