SUICIDE TERROR ATTACKS IN AFRICA
SUICIDE TERROR ATTACKS IN AFRICA

Summary/Abstract: The number of the suicide attempts increased dramatically in Africa after the Arab Spring and the following Islamist push. Nowadays, we can consider Nigeria, Somalia and Mali as the most dangerous areas in North Africa. The main objectives of the different terrorist groups are various most of the times. Ones oppose foreign presence, others fight for absoluteness of Islam. Certain groups continue their rivalry with each other or against governmental forces for growing their authority. The suicide terror act, the tool for fulfilling their objectives increased alarmingly in every case. The questions that the current article tries to answer are what kind of tendencies could be observed after 2011 from this point of view, what is the motivation of the perpetrator and what kind of common and different characteristics could be defined among the single terrorist acts.

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