LA Times: Al Qaeda, seeking to reassert itself, sets sights on West Africa and foreign visitors – Interview with Yan St-Pierre

March 15, 2016

Robyn Dixon, journalist with the LA Times, asked Yan St-Pierre to comment on the attack in Grand Bassam, Ivory Coast, for her article “Al Qaeda, seeking to reassert itself, sets sights on West Africa and foreign visitors“.

“Pretty much any West African country might be next, for example Senegal and Ghana,” said Yan St-Pierre, an Africa specialist at the Berlin-based Modern Security Consulting Group, a risk analysis firm. “Any soft target — hotels, resorts, government buildings in any West African country.”

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