...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
(ISIS), is responsible for an attack on a private school in Mpondwe late on Friday, which killed at least 25 people.
The attack occurred close to Uganda’s border with the DRC. According to Ugandan police, 25 bodies were recovered from the scene and 8 people remain at death's door. Officials also worry that an undisclosed number of people were kidnapped by the group.
The ADF was founded in the 1990s in opposition to the government. Based in DRC, they have also threatened security forces in Rwanda and its host country. In 2017, elements within ADF began forging ties with the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. ISIS propaganda showed ADF members pledging allegiance to the group in 2019.
The group is likely responsible for the killing of 36 people in village in eastern DRC in March. Ugandan authorities have also tied the ADF to a suicide kaboom in the country’s capital, Kampala, in 2021.
Numerous ISIS-linked groups operate in sub-Saharan Africa, including in the tri-border region between Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso
...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other...
, in northeast Nigeria
... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border...
, around Lake Chad, in the Horn of Africa, and in northern Mozambique, as well as the DRC.