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Terrorist groups exploiting power vacuums, UN chief warns
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 09 - 06 - 2022

While the number of deaths from terrorism has declined, the overall threat is far from over, particularly in Africa, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in New York on Wednesday.
Guterres was addressing the latest meeting of the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Coordination Compact, which brings together UN agencies, Member States and other partners.
The terrorism threat to Africa is increasing, he told participants.
Sub-Saharan Africa accounted for 48 percent of deaths attributed to terrorist groups globally last year.
"Groups like Al-Qaida, Da'esh and their affiliates are continuing to grow in the Sahel and make inroads into Central and Southern Africa. They are exploiting power vacuums, longstanding inter-ethnic strife, internal weaknesses and state fragilities," he said.
In conflict-affected countries, such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Libya and Somalia, terrorism has intensified cycles of violence, fuelling further instability, undermining peace efforts, and setting back development goals.
Meanwhile, in largely peaceful countries, such as Mozambique and Tanzania, terrorists are now seeking to exploit and manipulate societal grievances and mistrust in governments.
Despite these challenges, Guterres was convinced that progress is possible, based on his visit last month to Borno State in northern Nigeria.
Formerly a stronghold of the extremist group Boko Haram, the region is now on the road to reconciliation and reintegration.
"I was so impressed by the meetings I had with former fighters in one of the centers, with the meetings I had with victims and with this sense that Boko Haram, that was born in Borno State, is now clearly losing ground because the people have assumed largely, themselves, the capacity to undermine the work and the terrorist actions of Boko Haram," he said.
The Secretary-General stressed that the international community cannot effectively address terrorism without tackling the conditions conducive to its spread, such as weak institutions, inequalities, poverty, hunger, and injustice.
The UN's Counter Terrorism Strategy takes an integrated and holistic approach to the issue, which calls for investing in health, education, protection, gender equality and justice systems accessible to all.
"It means creating truly democratic systems and processes, so every person can have a voice in the future of their communities and countries - and trust that their voices will be heard and reflected," he said. "It means placing human rights and rule of law as the foundation of our work."
Guterres said the UN Counter-Terrorism Compact will continue to support countries in their counter-terror efforts, including through technical assistance, capacity-building, and in helping to build institutions that focus on people and are grounded in human rights and the rule of law.
The Compact is the largest coordination framework across the UN's three pillars of work: peace and security, sustainable development, and human rights and humanitarian affairs.
It was developed following the establishment of the UN Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT) in June 2017, considered the Secretary-General's first major institutional reform after taking office that January. — UN News


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