Sub-Saharan Africa Is 'New Epicenter' of Extremism, UN Says

A new report by the U.N.’s international development agency says that sub-Saharan Africa is the new global epicenter of violent Islamic extremism and that people are increasingly joining as a result of economic factors and less by religious ones.

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