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TOGO: State of Emergency

TOGO: State of Emergency The situation remains worrying in the north.Around 40 soldiers and 100 civilians have been killed in a jihadist “war” in northern Togo, President Faure Gnassingbe has said, in a ground‐breaking interview.The small West African nation, along with neighbouring Benin, Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire, is increasingly facing threats of a jihadist spillover from Burkina Faso and Mali.“We have paid a heavy price, especially our defence and security forces, who have lost around 40 men unfortunately, and then we add civilian victims, a hundred or so civilian victims in the country,” Gnassingbe said in an interview with local private station New World TV broadcast on April 27th.“What is happening to us is a form of aggression by two groups… one is called the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara and the other, the Group for the Support of Islam and Muslims,” he said, referring to a group linked to al‐Qaeda. This campaign by “two terrorist organisations… is a form of war,” said Gnassingbe.The president said a three‐tiered strategy had been put in place to confront the threat, including launching a military operation known as Koundjoare in September 2018. “It was a preventive operation at first, which then became defensive, and now http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Africa Research Bulletin Political Social and Cultural Series Wiley

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© 2023 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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10.1111/j.1467-825x.2023.11045.x
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The situation remains worrying in the north.Around 40 soldiers and 100 civilians have been killed in a jihadist “war” in northern Togo, President Faure Gnassingbe has said, in a ground‐breaking interview.The small West African nation, along with neighbouring Benin, Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire, is increasingly facing threats of a jihadist spillover from Burkina Faso and Mali.“We have paid a heavy price, especially our defence and security forces, who have lost around 40 men unfortunately, and then we add civilian victims, a hundred or so civilian victims in the country,” Gnassingbe said in an interview with local private station New World TV broadcast on April 27th.“What is happening to us is a form of aggression by two groups… one is called the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara and the other, the Group for the Support of Islam and Muslims,” he said, referring to a group linked to al‐Qaeda. This campaign by “two terrorist organisations… is a form of war,” said Gnassingbe.The president said a three‐tiered strategy had been put in place to confront the threat, including launching a military operation known as Koundjoare in September 2018. “It was a preventive operation at first, which then became defensive, and now

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Africa Research Bulletin Political Social and Cultural Series – Wiley

Published: May 1, 2023

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