| Summary: | 碩士 === 銘傳大學 === 國際事務研究所碩士班 === 95 === Terrorism and, for that matter, international terrorism has posed and continues to pose difficult challenges to state and human security in the international system. Africa as a continent has not been left out of this wave of terrorism on the continent.
International terrorist organizations continue to use Africa as a safe haven, staging area, or transit point to target U.S. interests. This international terrorist threat against U.S. and local national interests is likely to continue to grow in several parts of Africa because of porous borders, lax security, political instability, and lack of state resources and capacities. Africa is an area appealing potentially for terrorist organizations or individuals to operate with impunity; it has a lot of expanses of open area that are conducive to terrorist operations.
The U.S. launched many initiatives to prevent terrorists from setting up safe havens in Africa. Other U.S. governmental agencies are involved in these programs. Besides, African countries also took some initiatives to fight against terrorism through cooperation among them.
However, the counter-terrorism policies and practices of the U.S. and some African countries have severely shaken the universal applicability of international human rights standards. Many countries have restricted basic rights and freedoms and have justified such actions as being inspired by the U.S. for example. Today the primacy of respect for human rights, and the legitimacy of striving for their realization and protection is routinely challenged and questioned in words and deeds by governments of all kinds, democratic and undemocratic alike.
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