Counter Extremism Project: Security Deteriorating in West Africa as Terror Groups End Alliance
July 03, 2020
July 03, 2020
NEW YORK, July 3 -- The Counter Extremism Project issued the following news release:
Recent attacks by Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam wal Muslimeen (JNIM) and the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara--local affiliates of al-Qaeda and ISIS--against one another is punctuating a security breakdown in West Africa, a region already challenged by ongoing violence. Extremists had held a loose alliance to fight Western-backed governments across the Sahel, but that has broken in recent months under t . . .
Recent attacks by Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam wal Muslimeen (JNIM) and the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara--local affiliates of al-Qaeda and ISIS--against one another is punctuating a security breakdown in West Africa, a region already challenged by ongoing violence. Extremists had held a loose alliance to fight Western-backed governments across the Sahel, but that has broken in recent months under t . . .