{"title":"Terrorism against healthcare facilities and workers in Africa: An assessment of attack modes, targets and locations","authors":"Ryan Shaffer, János Besenyő","doi":"10.1080/10246029.2023.2213220","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article analyses nearly 600 terrorist attacks against healthcare facilities and workers in Africa between 1974 and 2021. It demonstrates there has been a notable increase in the number of terrorist attacks on these targets and explores the different attack modes, targets, and locations. The article describes how the attacks have transformed over the last nearly fifty years, becoming increasingly lethal. Consequently, it calls for scholars, the healthcare sector, governments, and international groups in Africa to recognise these trends and improve counter-measures for preventing and mitigating healthcare facility and worker attacks.","PeriodicalId":44882,"journal":{"name":"African Security Review","volume":"32 1","pages":"311 - 331"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1000,"publicationDate":"2023-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"African Security Review","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10246029.2023.2213220","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT This article analyses nearly 600 terrorist attacks against healthcare facilities and workers in Africa between 1974 and 2021. It demonstrates there has been a notable increase in the number of terrorist attacks on these targets and explores the different attack modes, targets, and locations. The article describes how the attacks have transformed over the last nearly fifty years, becoming increasingly lethal. Consequently, it calls for scholars, the healthcare sector, governments, and international groups in Africa to recognise these trends and improve counter-measures for preventing and mitigating healthcare facility and worker attacks.
Sophya Freire Murad Moraes de Almeida, Tainah Berbeti Pacheco de Lacerda Lage, Brunno Machado Rodrigues, Nadiny da Silva Florêncio, Brena Marcial Caliman, Leodir Dessabato Coelho, Thais Nunes Ximenes Viana, André Luiz Paulino Mayworm, Maria Isabel de Castro Rui, Maria Vitória Souza Barbosa, Ana Julia Cardoso Corona, Sarah de Souza Oliveira