Groups linked to al-Qaeda and the Islamic State, at war with each other in the Middle East, are working together to take control of territory across a vast stretch of West Africa, US and local officials say, sparking fears the regional threat could grow into a global crisis.
A coalition of al-Qaeda loyalists called JNIM has as many as 2000 fighters in West Africa, according to a US report released this month. The Islamic State in the Greater Sahara, which staged the 2017 attack that killed four American soldiers in Niger, is also thought to be hundreds strong and recruiting combatants in north-eastern Mali.
France, which has about 4500 troops in West Africa - the most of any foreign partner by far - has urged the United States to stay in the battle and other European powers to step up. American agencies watched late last year as al-Qaeda and Islamic State affiliates launched a seemingly co-ordinated campaign to isolate Ouagadougou, the capital in Burkina Faso, by periodically seizing control of highways into the city of 2.2 million, said a counterterrorism official in Washington who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence assessments.
The militants appear to have learned from that loss, the officials said, and since last July have employed a more "complex" approach to grabbing power, according to unclassified US Africa Command slides obtained by: They're destroying infrastructure, assassinating local leaders and emptying key army posts in co-ordinated strikes to separate people from the government.
For heaven's sake when are our worthless media going to understand their silly US inspired labels are worthless, they are sunni muslims, they all have the same wahabi belief system.
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