Experts are warning that the resurgence of ISIS in Africa is a ‘real and present danger’ to Britain.
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In a stark warning, security experts say the terrorist group, notorious for its beheading videos after seizing large parts of Syria and Iraq, poses a “real and present danger” to the UK.
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According to information shared at a UN Security Council meeting last week, the Islamic State is presenting a fresh challenge to security services as uses AI and social media to regain popularity.
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The Express reports: The UN has observed an increase in ISIS activity in the Sahel – specifically in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger – and in West Africa. There, the group has emerged “as a prolific producer of terrorist propaganda and attracted foreign terrorist fighters, primarily from within the region”, said Vladimir Voronkov, leader of the UN Office of Counter-Terrorism.
In Somalia, a large-scale ISIS attack was thwarted by security forces, resulting in the death of some 200 fighters and over 150 arrests, Voronkov reported.
Despite this, he warned that ISIS continues to benefit from regional support networks and remains a threat.
Professor Anthony Glees, a defence and security expert from the University of Buckingham, who has studied the resurgence in Somalia, described it as a “huge concern”.
He told the Mirror: “I suspect MI6 and MI5 will have also looked at this with huge concern.
“What we need to be worried about in the UK is that in Puntland [Somalia], and despite US bombing, ISIS seems to be establishing a geopolitical entity, however remote and however small, just as they did in Syria and Iraq in 2014.
“This cannot be allowed to happen again. Having a base was a key cause of its success in recruiting Islamists and would-be extremists from Europe, including as we know to our cost, from the UK.
“ISIS ideology is an off-shoot of Al Qaeda ideology and it is the ideology with a ‘state’ attached to it, that presents us in the UK with a real and present danger which has two aspects to it.”
Glees added that these concerns centre around the terror group’s potential to galvanise a fresh wave of British Islamists, whilst also serving as evidence that “the evil violence of ISIS jihadism” survived the downfall of its original caliphate.
He added: “Of course there are wider implications also for Africa. We believe the Houthis and others are funding ISIS in Somalia, as we can see they are well-equipped, and their influence is said to be found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as well as the Sahel. There’s no doubt that ISIS are exploiting the upheavals in Africa.”
