On Jihad Watch, which has been operating daily since 2003, Togo was mentioned once in 2017. That was it until last Wednesday and today. The jihadis who have been operating in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Nigeria for years are now expanding their operations. They see that the West is weak and suicidal. There is nothing to stop them.
“At Least 12 Killed in Raids on Northern Togo Villages,” Reuters, July 15, 2022:
LOME, TOGO — Armed men killed at least 12 civilians in overnight raids on villages in northern Togo, where Islamist militants have staged several attacks, two local activists and a medical source said Friday.
Spared until recently by the jihadi violence that has ravaged its northern neighbors for the better part of the past decade, Togo has over the past two months experienced a spate of attacks.
They are part of a broader spillover of militant violence into coastal West African countries from the landlocked Sahel region. Benin and Ivory Coast have also been targeted in the past year by militants believed to belong to an al-Qaida affiliate.
The overnight raids were the deadliest to hit Togo to date, topping an ambush in May that killed eight soldiers. The al-Qaida-linked Jamaa Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (JNIM), which is based in Mali, claimed responsibility for that attack.
A local rights activist, who asked to not be named for security reasons, said suspected jihadis killed 10 civilians in the village of Sougtangou and 10 in Blamonga, both of which are near the border with Burkina Faso.
Another local activist said suspected jihadis had killed at least 12 civilians and a medical source said the death toll was at least 14. They also spoke on condition of anonymity for security reasons….
The army said Thursday that it had killed a group of civilians, all teenagers, last Saturday night in an airstrike after mistaking them for jihadis.
Infidel says
I just hope that the regime in Togo shows more spine than the ones in Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo, Mali and Burkina Faso
mortimer says
It’s ethnic cleansing perpetrated by Muslim fanatics. It’s genocidal in nature.
All Muslims are required to do as much as they can according to their circumstances to promote Islamization.
When Muslims are in the majority, they have the choice of genocide if their leaders wish it.
VICTORMc. says
ISLAM, the curse of our earth. They are breeding civilised people in many many countries out of existence and everybody knows it.