APA – Dakar (Senegal) – Africa has become the epicenter of the global jihadist insurgency and there is evidence to corroborate this fact.
In the 400th issue of its weekly “AL-NABA,” published every Thursday, the Islamic State has published an infographic detailing its main attacks in the Muslim year 1444 H, which ended last Tuesday.
Nine incidents caught our attention. Five of them took place on the African continent. Egypt, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mozambique, Nigeria and Burkina Faso were the targeted countries.
Outside Africa, the four other countries affected were Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq and Iran.
In Egypt, the jihadist group’s propaganda weekly reported an attack on an army position in the eastern city of Ismailia that killed about 15 soldiers.
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Islamic State refers to the attack on the Kwakangura prison in Beni. This security incident, which dates back to August 2022, had allowed the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), active in the east of the DRC and affiliated with the Islamic State since 2019, to free at least 800 prisoners.
The attack on Nkowi, a village in the Macomia district of Cabo Delgado province, is also listed in the category of major operations. The group claims to have killed 16 Mozambican soldiers.
In Nigeria, the Islamic State highlighted an attack on an army camp in Malam Fatori that killed at least 30 soldiers. As for Burkina Faso, it owes its place in this infographic to the attack in Oudalan (North) last February, which killed 70 soldiers.
According to several observers, this hegemony of Africa in the cartography of the Islamic State’s most spectacular actions is sufficient proof that the jihadist group has definitively turned to the dark continent, where there is increasing mention of the presence of actors who were previously in the Syrian-Iraqi zone, the place where the “caliphate” was proclaimed in 2014.
In the province of the Islamic State of West Africa, or ex-Boko Haram, the presence of Chechen nationals is mentioned by specialists in jihadist insurgency, while in the Sahel, security sources report “movements” involving fighters from Syria or Iraq.
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