Islamic State in Africa: Affiliates and Competition
... it made a point that non-Moslem rulers and “apostate rulers” are now finally realizing that they are in a “new era” which “they feared, but now the time has come.” This was talking, above all, about African rulers, though the threats of terrorism from the African affiliates of the IS are fraught with spilling beyond the continent’s borders. In late 2016, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the first leader of the Islamic State, probably realizing that the radicals were being defeated in Syria and Iraq, declared the group’s need to “expand and move some of their command, media and resources” to Africa, which was destined to transform into its “second front”....
20.07.2023
