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Africa Subsaharan
West Africa: Islamic State's Determined Expansion Into Lake Chad Basin
2021-08-08
[AllAfrica] African states must act quickly to stop the restructuring of Islamic State
...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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
West Africa Province (ISWAP) in the Lake Chad Basin. If they don't, Islamic State's plans to expand in the region will further endanger the lives of millions of Africans.

According to ISS research, 130 or more former fighters rejoined ISWAP after returning from Libya in three batches between April and June.
Islamic State is using ISWAP, its local affiliate, to further its expansionist agenda that began even before it was defeated in Iraq and Syria. Institute for Security Studies research shows that Islamic State ordered the removal of Jama'atu Ahlis Sunnah lid-Da'wati wa'l-Jihad (JAS) leader Abubakar Shekau
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