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Terrorism is not a concept unknown in Africa. The northern and western region of Africa have been deeply affected by religious and nationalist conflicts, which were followed by destructive acts of terrorism. In this context, the terrorist networks are long established in the Horn (Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti and Somalia) and along the coast of East Africa (Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania).

In 1973, the American U.S. Deputy Chief of Mission, curite George Moore and Belgian diplomat Guy Eid were killed by Palestinian terrorist group Black September in Khartoum, Sudan. This was the beginning of a series of extremist acts of terrorism in the region. In 1995, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was attacked by Gama'at al-Islamiyya, an Egyptian terrorist group, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. In 1998, al-Qaida bombed U.S. embassies in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya, and in 2002, al Qaeda simultaneously bombed again an Israeli-owned hotel and airliner Mombasa, Kenya.

One of the most tragic examples of domestic terrorism in Africa has been the genocide in Rwanda in 1994. Hundreds of thousands of innocent people from the Tutsi tribe were slaughtered, raped and tortured to death by Hutus, their tribal enemies. It was an ethnic conflict that has taken the character of an ethnic cleansing and massive use of terror and indiscriminate brutality towards the civilian population.

Internal and international terrorism in Africa has thrived because of the weakening or failed states in the region, allowing financial exploitation by terrorist groups or the use of internal conflicts within indigenous networks to recruit terrorists. The most striking example of terrorism is based in Khartoum, Sudan. On Sudanese soil, Muslim extremists are trained to believe in the superiority of Allah and to claim their rights allegedly justified by the terrorist attacks worldwide.

In addition, the constant infusion of religious tension, economic deprivation, corruption and political instability represented in severe forms of terrorist activity. governance and institutional failures have provided an oppressive social context conducive to political violence and extremism of terrorist groups.

All these various expressions of the terrorist attack has profoundly affected the stability in Africa. The polarization of ethnic and religious identity has led to high conflict societies, which are unable to develop institutional structures of non-violent coexistence in the context of religious independence and political stability. Examples are Algerian terrorist groups such as the Armed Islamic Group (GIA) and the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), which over the last two decades have thoroughly destroyed much of the basic fundamental social held on country together. Finally, terrorism has been remarkably discouraging foreign investment and tourism.