Algeria, which is one of the few countries in the world to pay a high price for terrorism, is taking its initiative to criminalize the payment of ransoms beyond its borders.
This resolution is in response to the need to cut off the sources of financing for the different terrorist groups that foment trouble and terror in the four corners of the world. More than 200,000 people have lost their lives in this North African country since the terrorism here started in 1992. In Africa, this devastating phenomenon is taking hold more and more, especially in the sub-region of the Sahel where it has a solid base. Local populations, at least for many of them, easily give in to the narrowing socioeconomic noose. This is how they are recruited, in exchange for financial compensation, by armed Islamist groups who make them their main base.
