After the course ends, Lieutenant Toure said, Brazilian military advisers plan to travel to Senegal, where his unit is involved in combating a slow-burning insurgency, the Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance.
Egypt has also faced a slow-burning insurgency in the Sinai Peninsula, where an Islamic State affiliate called Sinai Province (previously known as Ansar Bayt al Maqdis), has carried out a series of operations.
The distrust remains one of the biggest obstacles to political progress and security; one senior American diplomat who recently departed Iraq said that it was what kept "the embers of the insurgency" burning.
An Iraq-style insurgency is burning its way across the country, with roadside bombs, political assassinations and suicide attacks, which were unheard of in Somalia until the Ethiopians arrived.
Outlying areas of Odisha — which has long been affected by a slow-burning Maoist insurgency — have high rates of illiteracy, child malnutrition, and infant and maternal mortality.
Unlike the insurgency there, which is still burning, the protests were indigenous, spontaneous and mostly peaceful.
As the insurgency evolved, Boko Haram started burning villages and kidnapping community leaders.
Over recent years, particularly following the Lord's Resistance Army insurgency in Katine in 2003, the community resorted to burning charcoal to support their livelihoods.
Hundreds of Boko Haram fighters stormed Askira Uba, burning homes and public buildings, despite a regional campaign to crush their six-year insurgency.
