In 2023, the Sahel has become the epicenter of global terrorism, with one in three deaths from this cause across the planet. The situation is especially worrying in Burkina Faso, which for the first time leads the world statistics with 1,907 of the 8,352 killed by terrorism in the world in 2023.

Mali occupies third position with 753 deaths and Niger is tenth with 468, which raises the deaths in the central Sahel to 3,128 in one year.