Wall Street Journal: Daesh grows in Africa after failure in Syria and Iraq

The Wall Street Journal said that ISIS is growing in “African Christian countries” and has identified certain armed activities attributed to it in a number of countries.

She explained in a report that the organization, after its failure in Syria and Iraq, began to expand in Africa, starting with Libya, northern Nigeria and the Sahara region.

The newspaper added that the organization’s first attacks targeted Muslim societies, as was the case in its previous experiences.

He confirmed that ISIS fighters took control of a town in Mozambique at the end of last month, forcing the French company Total to withdraw its employees from a gas project costing $ 16 billion.

The American newspaper said that this organization was able to free 1,300 of its members from prisons in eastern Congo, where armed groups in search of minerals are scattered without government control.

The newspaper’s report added that the organization no longer focuses on controlling the territory, but instead cooperates with local movements by providing them with support and training, and does not oversee day-to-day operations as it did in Iraq and Syria.

The report cites defectors from what Daesh calls the “Central African Province” that there are few Arab fighters and that the organization once fought alongside armed pagan and Christian movements.