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Islamist Groups Intensify Destabilization in Nigeria
December 05, 2018
An amalgam of Islamist jihadi groups in Nigeria, including Boko Haram and a West African branch of the Islamic State (IS), has demonstrated growing strength in a significant intensification of attacks across the country in a systematic effort to destabilize it in the run-up to the early-2019 presidential elections.
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Mozambique Uses Courts to Try to Staunch Islamist Expansion
December 05, 2018
Mozambique courts will begin a trial of 200 citizens and foreign nationals accused of perpetrating a pattern of Islamist attacks in the country over this past year, as the government tries to tamp down a growing jihadist threat aimed at imposing sharia law throughout the West African nation.
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BoE Creates Liquidity Facility for Sharia Finance
December 05, 2018
The Bank of England (BoE) is creating a Sharia Compliant Facility, an alternative liquidity facility that will permit banks to hold BoE reserves in conformity with Islamic law, a move intended to bolster London as a global Islamic financial center.
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Australian Trial Shows Global-Local Network of Jihadists
December 05, 2018
The Melbourne Supreme Court trial of four pro-Islamic State (IS) jihadists arrested in late 2016 for plotting to perpetrate multi-city terror attacks on Christmas Day shows how radical Islamists are adapting their global movement to local conditions.
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Tensions Mount in Mauritania over Influence of Muslim Brotherhood
December 05, 2018
The recent closure of two Islamic schools of higher education by Mauritania’s government because of their alleged links to political Islamist opposition groups has evoked student demonstrations in the West African country.
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