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Islamic State in Africa: Affiliates and Competition

... al-Baghdadi, al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri and Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar. Nevertheless, that strategy proved unjustified, and Shekau had to take sides in March 2015 choosing al-Baghdadi as his “overlord” to whom he swore an oath. Thus, Boko Haram turned into Wilayat IS West Africa. Meanwhile, Abubakar Shekau proved too radical even for IS, so al-Baghdadi decided to replace him with Abu Musab al-Barnawi, the son of Boko Haram founder and first emir Muhammad Yusuf, who had previously led the al-Qaida-affiliated Jama’atu ...

20.07.2023

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Boko Haram and the future of Nigeria

... its offensive with the goal of controlling territories along Lake Chad shared by Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon and Niger. This has turned the insurgency from a threat to Nigeria’s national security into a transnational one. On January 29, 2015, the African Union approved the deployment of a 7,500-strong multinational force to fight Boko Haram. Chad has taken the lead in running the military operation, having deployed 2,500 troops on the ground and having carried out several air strikes in recent weeks, which have seriously challenged Boko Haram’s capacity to hold its ground....

16.02.2015

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