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Jihadi Groups in Africa Adapting to COVID-19 Crisis with Ideological and Operational Opportunism
April 22, 2020
Islamist extremist groups are already making ideological and operational adjustments to COVID-19 conditions across Africa, using the pandemic to increase their recruits to a commitment to expanding sharia law and to expand the scope and impact of jihadist violence designed to overthrow existing state governance structures on the African Continent.
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IS Militants in Philippines Show Resilience with Deadly Attack on Soldiers
April 22, 2020
Islamic State (IS) militants ambushed soldiers in the Philippines carrying out a security and counter-terrorism operation on one of the country's southern islands, killing and wounding more than 25 security personnel in an attack that underscored the resilience of the local Islamist extremist Abu Sayyaf faction that is fighting to impose sharia law across the Pacific island nation.
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Africa's Sahel Shows Continent's Vulnerabilities to Jihadist Groups
April 22, 2020
Africa's Sahel region is a key locus for violence by a range of jihadist groups warring against fragile and/or authoritarian states, pointing to the entire Continent's vulnerability to Islamist militants who claim that sharia law and Islamist ideology are the only antidotes to the political and socioeconomic travails of Africa.
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Jihadists Call for Caliphate in Mozambique
April 15, 2020
Local Jihadists in Mozambique’s energy-resource-rich northern region have called for the imposition of a caliphate in the West African country, joining the ecosystem of diverse Islamist extremists groups warring to replace Mozambique’s government with a sharia regime.
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Saudi Arabia Uses Executions to Silence Critics of Wahhabi Regime
April 15, 2020
According to a report issued by British human rights organization Reprieve, Saudi Arabia’s Islamist theocratic leadership uses executions as a tool of choice to silence critics of the Wahhabi regime, with a doubling in the execution rate to reach a total of 800 individuals in the last five years.
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