![]() During the first half of the year, ACLED records some of the deadliest attacks on civilians since the beginning of the crisis. Joint military operations between Burkina Faso and Niger along their shared border were accompanied by reports of attacks targeting civilians, resulting in scores of people killed. ![]() In Mali, scaled up operations by Malian government forces coincided with, and were likely enabled by, Wagner’s support and newly acquired aerial assets from Russia. In fact, violence against civilians involving state forces has reached its highest level since a major spike in early 2020 ( for more, see ACLED’s report on State Atrocities in the Sahel ). ![]() Between March 2019 and March 2022, IS Sahel was technically the Greater Sahara faction of Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) as part of the Islamic State’s organizational infrastructure, before being designated its own province., and the Al Qaeda-affiliated Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM). Only Niger is faring better in 2022: after experiencing a record year of conflict in 2021, conflict-related deaths are in decline.Īn important dimension of the ever-worsening crisis is the scale of atrocities against civilians perpetrated by Malian state forces Russian Wagner Group mercenaries Burkinabe state forces and jihadist militant groups, including the Islamic State Sahel Province (IS Sahel) 1 IS Sahel is more commonly known as the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS). Meanwhile, reported fatalities so far in 2022 are highest in Mali, which has been regaining its place as the epicenter of the crisis after being surpassed by Burkina Faso in the count of conflict-related deaths in two of the last three years. Conflict intensity, as measured by the number of organized political violence events in the first half of 2022, remains highest in Burkina Faso among Sahelian states. ![]() 2022 is on track to be the deadliest year for both Burkina Faso and Mali since the Sahel crisis began more than a decade ago. Current trends indicate that instability in the central Sahel is persisting, expanding, and escalating, as ACLED outlined earlier this year. Halfway through 2022, the crisis in the Sahel continues to worsen. Persistent, Expanding, and Escalating Instability ![]()
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