New security threats in west Africa : terrorism and illegal immigration

Abstract EN

The paper examines the phenomena of terrorism and illegal migration among the good security threats that threaten the African continent as a whole and the West African region in particular.

A series of approaches and theories have been applied to understand the phenomena to be studied and identified in West Africa, Which has been exacerbated in the current years by the continuation of these causative movements, where a number of studies, especially the United States, confirm that the regions of North and West Africa are a fertile area for the growth and development of African terrorism, especially with the emergence of a set of indicators of growing development And the existence of a number of advocacy groups.

Some of these hypotheses lend credence to the weak capacity of West African States to control border and security management of their territory, given the weak potential and the geographical space of these asymmetrical threats as well as the effectiveness Economic problems that have led to widespread poverty and corruption.