i'm christine will welcome to news africa i'm glad you're too did we begin with west africa's growing islamist insurgency which is seeing attacks intensifying under-rated to the new targets burkina faso the number of violent incidents in which enough of these are incidents links to local affiliates off al qaeda and the so-called islamic state rose by one hundred twelve between two thousand and seventeen and two thousand and eighteen these numbers come from the report by the africa center for strategic studies now the threat initially came from the northern side hell region that is along the border with mali as you can see shaded on the map then the attack spread further east near the border with a toll go and between now the government recently declared