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Sub-Saharan Africa is ‘new epicenter’ of extremism, says UN

FILE - Shoes of the kidnapped students from Government Science Secondary School are seen inside their class room Kankara, Nigeria, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. Rebels from the Boko Haram extremist group claimed responsibility. The new global epicenter of violent Islamic extremism is sub-Saharan Africa where people are increasingly joining because of economic factors and less by religious ones, according to a new report by the U.N.'s international development agency. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, File)

Sub-Saharan Africa is ‘new epicenter’ of extremism, says UN