Apart from Boko Haram, there is very, very little optimism for the sub-Saharan Africa region. ![]() The group has continued to lose some of its territory. ![]() I think we have seen some success by the Nigeria military, for example, in the fight against Boko Haram. In its 2017 Armed Conflict Survey, the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) describes the picture for Africa as "mixed."ĭW has been talking to the editor of the survey, Dr Anastasia VoronkovaĭW: What does the survey have to say about conflicts in Africa?ĭr Anastasia Voronkova: Although we see that fatalities in the sub-Saharan region are quite high, they have actually gone down. The second most lethal was Mexico where the battle with cartels claimed 23,000 lives, surpasssing the death tolls in Somalia and Afghanistan. ![]() Syria was the world's most lethal conflict, claiming a further 50,000 lives in 2016.
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