West African jihadism and counterterrorism face limits

North-west Africa’s jihadists are tenacious and destabilising, but hard realities constrain their horizons

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  • Geographic dispersion
  • Family trees
  • AQIM
  • Boko Haram
  • North Africa
  • Strategic limitations
  • Territorial ambitions
  • Methods of control
  • Internal cohesion
  • Co-dependency

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