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Jihadist violence in Nigeria and DRC rose sharply last year even as global deaths from terror fell | The Guardian
Source: The Guardian | 19 March 2026
[...]The tactical shift fits into a pattern of jihadists launching coordinated and sophisticated assaults on military bases across the region, as counterinsurgency missions ramp up. JNIM, which launches drones frequently, has used them in more than 100 cases of drone violence in the last three years across the Sahel. According to the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data (ACLED), there have also been 16 drone incidents involving the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) since 2014.
“Ten [of the ISWAP incidents] involved drone attacks and the remainder were intelligence‑gathering or surveillance missions used to prepare ground offensives against military targets,” said Ladd Serwat, ACLED’s senior analyst for Africa.[...]
