The governments of Africa where jihadis are active seem powerless to stop them, or not interested in doing so. “19 civilians killed in DR Congo by Islamic State-linked militants,” AFP, August 29, 2021: Nineteen civilians in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo were burned and hacked to death on Friday by Ugandan Islamist rebels, a […]
Congo President warns that the Islamic State could now “come into Africa to set up their caliphate”
Félix Tshisekedi is correct that the Islamic State (ISIS) doesn’t consider itself to have been defeated. It has lost in Iraq and Syria, but it considers itself to be only the latest exponent of a 1,400-year-old war; it will never give up, it will just move somewhere else and try again. “Congolese President Cites Threat […]