{"id":240879,"date":"2026-08-11T19:27:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T17:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/guinea-with-terrorism-on-its-doorstep-guinea-must-tackle-internal-vulnerabilities\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T19:27:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T17:27:12","slug":"guinea-with-terrorism-on-its-doorstep-guinea-must-tackle-internal-vulnerabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/guinea-with-terrorism-on-its-doorstep-guinea-must-tackle-internal-vulnerabilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Guinea: With Terrorism On Its Doorstep, Guinea Must Tackle Internal Vulnerabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Guinea&#8217;s response to the growing threat must consider domestic risk factors, not just the threat from neighbouring Mali.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"56\">Guinea has so far been spared attacks by violent extremist groups, but the risk of terrorism spilling over from neighbouring Mali is now on the rise. The March <a href=\"https:\/\/fr.apanews.net\/news\/guinee-demantelement-de-plusieurs-reseaux-presumes-lies-au-gsim-parquet\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">indictment<\/a> of 11 suspected Jama&#8217;at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) members in Guinea&#8217;s gold mining region bordering Mali shows the country&#8217;s vulnerability to the instability affecting the central Sahel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Attacks by&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608110388.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Guinea\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/guinea\/\">Guinea<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guinea&#8217;s response to the growing threat must consider domestic risk factors, not just the threat from neighbouring Mali. Guinea has so far been spared attacks by violent extremist groups, but the risk of terrorism spilling over from neighbouring Mali is now on the rise. The March indictment of 11 suspected Jama&#8217;at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1118],"tags":[258,256,55121,4715,1124,7961,257,254,11164,576,34845],"class_list":["post-240879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guinea","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-doorstep","tag-guinea","tag-guinea-news","tag-internal","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tackle","tag-terrorism","tag-vulnerabilities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}