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Jihadist Groups Will Make Continuing Advances in Sub-Saharan Africa
August 18, 2020
Jihadist armed conflicts and Islamist extremist groups are expanding their footprint all across sub-Saharan Africa, especially with the ongoing influx of career foreign fighters from Mideast caliphate territories, who bring new fighting techniques and financing networks, plus intra-jihadist competition, to an African region characterized by fragile state, endemic corruption, and COVID-19 vulnerabilities.
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IS Fighters Seize Key Mozambique Port in Expanding Operations to Grab Natural Gas in Horn of Africa
August 18, 2020
Local IS militants advanced their goal of seizing key natural gas resource sites in the Horn of Africa region, seizing two military Mozambique military bases and a poet in the southern part of the country.
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Algeria Turns to Islamic Finance to Meet Challenges of COVID-19 & Collapsing Oil Prices
August 18, 2020
Sharia-compliant financial products and banking products are forecast to gain a larger sector of Algeria’s economy, as the country’s political-economic leadership looks to stave off the effects of collapsing oil prices and the expanding COVID-19 pandemic on Africa’s largest country.
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Al Shabaab Deadly Attack on Somalia Hotel Reminds That Jihadism Continues During COVID-19
August 18, 2020
A multiple-casualty attack in Somalia by Islamist extremist group al Shabaab on a high-end hotel frequented by government officials and tourists in the country’s capital city is reminder that jihadism continues unabated during the COVID-19 pandemic, evidenced by al Shabaab’s ongoing violence aimed at implementing sharia regimes across East Africa.
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Iranian Islamist Regime Continues Anti-Semitic Approach in Attack on VeggieTales Kids Animation Series
August 18, 2020
Iran’s Islamist theocratic regime is sustaining its longstanding anti-Semitic rhetoric and policies and commitment to the destruction of Israel, with state-run media denouncing the Persian-language-dubbed release of the VeggieTales’ kids animation movie on “Esther: The Girl Who Became Queen” as “Zionist propaganda that has infiltrated Iran’s streaming services.”
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