Islamic State in Africa: Affiliates and Competition
... Challenge? Yet far from all African radicals have found it acceptable to embrace the leadership of IS. For example, the “veterans” of African jihadism, the Somali group al-Shabab, against which the combined forces of several African states from AMISOM (African Union Mission to Somalia) have been fighting (under the guise of “peacekeeping”) with varying success since 2007, as well as the Ethiopian military, which until 2016 had supported the government in Mogadishu. In 2015, IS leader al-Baghdadi ...
20.07.2023