ANALYSIS: What Guinea must do to stop terrorism at its doorstep
The March indictment of 11 suspected Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) members in Guinea’s gold mining region bordering Mali shows how vulnerable the country is to the instability affecting the central Sahel.
Along the poorly demarcated 858 km Guinea-Mali border, recurring communal tensions are fuelled by disputes over abundant gold resources.
Attacks by militant groups in Mali near the Guinean border have become more frequent in the past two years, with strikes against a police checkpoint, customs outpost and Chinese-run mining sites near Guinea’s border.
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