{"id":1353,"date":"2015-11-18T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T11:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/africa\/?p=1353"},"modified":"2016-10-27T14:41:18","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T13:41:18","slug":"facts-behind-terrorist-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/africa\/2015\/11\/18\/facts-behind-terrorist-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrorist Attacks \u2013 Some Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Last June, I went back to<a href=\"http:\/\/sbs.strathmore.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Strathmore Business School<\/a> in Nairobi<\/strong>. Almost one year had passed since my last stay there. One colleague asked whether I had seen any changes. My answer didn\u2019t surprise him: an obvious increase in security measures. <strong>The terrorist attack at Garissa University that killed close to 150 students, and the threat of further attacks made those precautionary measures necessary<\/strong>. Sadly, the outrageous attacks of last week in Paris have brought terrorism back to center stage.<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/africa\/files\/2015\/11\/3762260_640px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1355 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/africa\/files\/2015\/11\/3762260_640px-300x284.jpg\" alt=\"3762260_640px\" width=\"300\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/africa\/files\/2015\/11\/3762260_640px-300x284.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/africa\/files\/2015\/11\/3762260_640px-500x473.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/africa\/files\/2015\/11\/3762260_640px.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<a class=\"inline-twitter-link inline-tweet-click\" href=\"#\" onclick=\"inline_tweet_sharer_open_win('https:\\\/\\\/twitter.com\\\/intent\\\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.iese.edu%2Fafrica%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F1353%2F&text=Indiscriminate+terrorist+acts+like+these+remind+us+of+our+vulnerability+');\" title=\"Tweet This!\">Indiscriminate terrorist acts like these remind us of our vulnerability <span class=\"non-dashicons\"> <\/span><\/a>. It\u2019s natural that companies think twice about operating in countries under terrorist threat. How does the situation look in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)? Before reading any further, pause for 30 seconds and consider your perception of it.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/globalincidentmap.com\/incidents.php?typeid=17\" target=\"_blank\">GlobalIncidentMap.com<\/a> contains up-to-date information about general terrorism news of the last 30 days.<\/strong> Out of 121 attacks occurring in the period ending November 16, 13 (slightly more than 10 %) took place in SSA: more specifically, in Somalia, Burundi, Sudan, and Central African Republic. Sadly, 105 people died.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aon.com\/terrorismmap\/2015-guide-terrorism-political-violence-risk-map.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">A report by Aon Broking <\/a>on terrorism and political violence shows that 37 out of 50 SSA countries didn\u2019t face the peril of terrorism in 2014. Out of the 13 that did face it, five experienced no attack. <strong>80% of the attacks were concentrated in two countries of the eight countries that suffered them \u2013 Nigeria and Somalia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>How does this information compare to your perception?<\/strong> I bet you pictured a gloomier outlook. <strong>Fair enough, SSA countries face instability from sources other than terrorism.<\/strong> But <a class=\"inline-twitter-link inline-tweet-click\" href=\"#\" onclick=\"inline_tweet_sharer_open_win('https:\\\/\\\/twitter.com\\\/intent\\\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.iese.edu%2Fafrica%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F1353%2F&text=Don%3Ft+let+your+business+decisions+be+driven+by+perceptions%3A+look+for+data%2C+and+preferably%2C+also+for+first-hand+information+');\" title=\"Tweet This!\">don\u2019t let your business decisions be driven by perceptions: look for data, and preferably, also for first-hand information <span class=\"non-dashicons\"> <\/span><\/a>. If you want to know my own impressions of the situation in Nigeria, you may read a previous post I wrote titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/africa\/2014\/05\/21\/bring-back-our-girls\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bring Back our Girls<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>My thoughts and prayers go out to the victims of terrorism and their families.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last June, I went back to Strathmore Business School in Nairobi. Almost one year had passed since my last stay there. One colleague asked whether I had seen any changes. My answer didn\u2019t surprise him: an obvious increase in security measures. The terrorist attack at Garissa University that killed close to 150 students, and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1654,"featured_media":1355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99579],"tags":[100350,100352,100353,1080,7609,67297,1313,80759,100354,100351],"class_list":["post-1353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-african-economic-and-institutional-context","tag-garissa-university","tag-global-incident-map","tag-instability","tag-nigeria","tag-security","tag-strathmore-business-school","tag-sub-saharan-africa","tag-terrorism","tag-terrorist-attack","tag-vulnerable","megacategoria-mc-africa"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1654"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1353"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1359,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353\/revisions\/1359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}