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Simão also pointed out that only 14 percent of funding for the 2025 Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan for the Sahel region has been received and added that resource mobilization is urgently needed to save the lives of millions of people at risk.
The United Nations held a Security Council meeting recently, where Leonardo Santos Simão, the head of the UN Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), spoke about the developments of terrorist activities in the region.
Simão told the council that terrorism has surged in scale, complexity, and sophistication, including through the use of drones, alternative internet communication, and increasing collusion with transnational organized crime.
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Simão also pointed out that only 14 percent of funding for the 2025 Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan for the Sahel region has been received and added that resource mobilization is urgently needed to save the lives of millions of people at risk.
The experts monitoring sanctions against the two groups said its growth in Africa is partly because of the Islamic State’s losses in the Middle East due to counterterrorism pressures. In Africa’s Sahel region, the experts said, JNIM expanded its area of operations, operating “with relative freedom” in northern Mali and most of Burkina Faso.
