BAGHDADI’S ISIS COOPERATION MADE STAKE IN AFRICA BUT AL-QAEDA’S WING IS IN THE RISE

The entry of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and new splinter groups are challenging Al-Shabaab’s dominance.

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• 08 May, 2024

The entry of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and new splinter groups are challenging Al-Shabaab’s dominance. This has raised the stakes to the state of terror in the region and growing threat to the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM). While the death of Ibrahim Awad Ibrahim alBadri, appealingly known to many as Abū Bakr al-Baghdadi, may have had a slight blow to the ISIS Cooperation, ISIS has emerged to be the fastest growing terrorist enterprise globally.

Its footprints in Africa, like all other cooperation including China, Russia and others are looking to set base, ISIS has grown power and influence. In the Western Africa region, , the Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP), a splinter of Boko Haram, is glowing its territorial base on the banks and islands of Lake Chad, waging terror across North-Eastern Nigeria. In East Africa, ISIS is dominantly gaining foothold showcasing its fighters and recruiting new members in South Sudan and Somali’s Northern Puntland’s Bari Mountains, South of Basaso.