The Sahel region recorded nearly half of the world's terrorism-related deaths in 2025, continuing its trend as a global terrorism hotspot according to the Global Terrorism Report.
The Global Terrorism Report, released by the Institute for Economics and Peace, highlights the Sahel region of Africa as the "global epicentre of terrorism," accounting for a staggering nearly half of all global terrorism-related deaths for the third consecutive year in 2025. The report evaluates and ranks 163 countries based on various terrorism-related metrics such as attacks, deaths, and injuries, revealing alarming trends in regions heavily impacted by violence. In 2024, the Sahel recorded more than half of the world's 7,555 terrorism-related deaths, a figure that slightly decreased in 2025 but remained significant.
