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Maat: Internal fighting in Ethiopia made it number one interms of victim of violence in Africa

Okeil: The international community should learn from the present and the past and stop giving priority to political interests

Gouda: West African countries must work together to fill the void created by the withdrawal of French forces

قالت مؤسسة ماعت للسلام والتنمية وحقوق الإنسان، أن قارة أفريقيا تعرضت خلال شهر سبتمبر لـ 61 هجومًا إرهابيًا، وتسببت في وفاة ما لا يقل عن 1006 شخصًا بسبب العلميات الإرهابية والتوترات العرقية، أن أكثر الأقاليم تضررًا هو إقليم شرق أفريقيا بواقع 608 ضحية، أي حوالي %60 من النسبة الكلية لضحايا الشهر، بسبب حالة الاقتتال الداخلي في إثيوبيا، حيث سقط 541 ضحية بسبب التوترات العرقية في إثيوبيا وحدها. وقد جاءت الصومال الدولة الأكثر من حيث التعرض للعمليات الإرهابية، حيث تعرضت وحدها ل 17هجوماً إرهابياً.

All this was mentioned in Maat’s monthly report on Terrorist Operations in Africa, which monitors the acts of violence that Africa has been subjected to, the efforts to combat terrorism in the continent, and the recommendations and estimates of the current and future security situation in the African continent.

Commenting on the report, Ayman Okeil, an international human rights expert and president of Maat, said that the strategies to combat terrorism in Africa should not only be based on the military tool, but should also extend to all sectors of the state, and it is important that the strategies for combating terrorism include development processes to prevent the spread of terrorism again. Okeil appealed to the international community to learn from the past, and to stop giving priority to political interests, and to work to eliminate terrorism from its roots, in order to save the future of coming generations.

The international human rights expert called for opening of an extensive investigation into the Nigerian Air Force's bombing of a village in the northeast of the country, which led to the death of dozens of civilians, stressing that such brutal incidents should not go unnoticed, especially with their recurrence, last month in Somalia by AMISOM forces, and this month in Nigeria. People suffer not only from terrorist organizations but also from government forces.

For his part, Abdul-Latif Gouda, a researcher in the African Affairs Unit at Maat for Peace, Development and Human Rights, said that West African countries must cooperate with each other to fill the power vacuum that will be caused by the withdrawal of French forces at the end of this year. This would push the region into a more violent wave of terrorist operations. West Africa is still targeted by the terrorist organization of ISIS and Boko Haram, the two organizations that have entered into a cycle of conflict over control of north Nigeria, while the peoples of West Africa are under the brunt of the attacks of the two terrorist organizations.

Notably, Africa is among the issues of concern to Maat for Peace, Development and Human rights, being a member of the General Assembly for the Economic, Social & Cultural Council (ECOSOCC) of the Africa Union (AU). Moreover, Maat serves as an Observer in The African Commission on Human and People’s Rights (ACHPR) and as a Northern African Coordinator in the major Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in Africa of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA).

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