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TheConversationUS@newsie.social ("The Conversation U.S.") wrote:
Kidnapping for ransom has long fueled insurgencies in the west African Sahel.
New analysis of 58,000 violent events shows a shift: jihadist groups once targeted westerners but now they increasingly abduct local civilians, turning kidnapping into a widespread predatory economy.