By Taking On Government Roles, Terrorists Tighten Grip On Sahel’s Rural Areas

Across the vast expanses of rural Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, residents feel little influence from their central governments. That void has opened the way for the terrorist group Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin to spread its own influence by fulfilling local security needs while imposing strict Islamic law known as...