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2021-05-30 Africa Subsaharan
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Islamic State in West Africa Now Dominates in Northeast Nigeria
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[AllAfrica] The Islamic State
 ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
in West Africa (ISWA) has announced that it has replaced Abubakar Shekau
...the lunatic leader of Boko Haram who has been reported dead at least eleven times, pledged his body and soul to ISIS, told his fighters to hang it up once or twice, and been fired by the Caliph and refused to step down. Last seen in 2017, sneaking into Cameroon while wearing a burka...
with Abu Musab al-Barnawi. Abu Musab "takes over all territories that were under Shekau.
The immediate replacement of Shekau was a major Dire Revenge against the former Boko Haram
 ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
leader that exhibited 'highhandedness and ruthlessness' against humanity in the Northeast." The announcement also included that ISWA had arrested thirty top commanders that were loyal to Shekau.
It appears that ISWA has absorbed Shekau's faction. A credible hypothesis is that the thirty commanders "arrested" will either switch allegiance to Abu Musab or be killed, with the former alternative the more likely. ISWA is already the larger fighting force: in February 2019 it was estimated to boast around two to three times more fighters (3,500-5,000) than Shekau's faction (1,500-2,000).
Actual numbers — good to know. It should be noted that there is still no definitive evidence that Shekau is dead. The Nigerian government has been careful to say that it is still investigating; no corpse, or even a picture of a corpse that might serve as proof of death, has been found. That said, there has been no statement by Shekau's supporters that he is still alive.
It remains to be seen whether this apparent consolidation of Boko Haram factions will make the movement more lethal and dangerous to the Nigerian state. Shekau's displacement or demise raises the question of what group now hold the more than one hundred Chibok schoolgirls that remain in captivity.
I thought all the Chibok girls had been sold on years ago, along with most of the other girls Boko Haram kidnapped over the years, while kidnapped boys were forced to become fighters. Didi I miss something? It is to be hoped that there might be some movement toward their release.
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