Ivory Coast creates military zone after jihad massacre as al Qaeda steps up operations in the region

[duluxe]

The Sahel region of Africa has become a war zone due to jihad activity. After its ousting from Syria and Iraq, the Islamic State (IS) “is now trying to build a caliphate in the restive Sahel region.” “Burkina Faso, for example, is on the verge of becoming ‘another Syria’, according to the UN’s food agency.” One stumbling block for the Islamic State is its turf war with al-Qaeda, which is escalating. Meanwhile, al-Qaeda recently lost its emir in the nearby Islamic Maghreb, Abdelmalek Droukdel. Droukdel was critical in al Qaeda’s expansion in the region. Nonetheless, the Islamic jihad rages on in the Sahel region, and civilians are caught in the crossfire. A resident of Doropo in Northern Ivory Coast gave a graphic picture of how jihadists in the Sahel region of Africa have been expanding operations.

“Jihadists are like ants, they can come in without being noticed.” On June 11th, just three weeks after Ivory Coast’s army reassuringly declared that its northern frontier with war-torn Burkina Faso was “under control”, a band of armed insurgents proved it wrong.

“Ivory Coast shares a 550-kilometer (340-mile) border with Burkina Faso, where jihadist violence has claimed nearly 1,000 lives.” Last month, a deadly jihad attack saw 14 people murdered at the Ivory Coast’s border with Burkina Faso, the first such assault since “March 2016, when a raid on the southeastern beach resort of Grand-Bassam left 19 people dead.”


Ivory Coast has now taken measures to construct a special military zone. “This northern operational zone will make it possible to move from the phase of border surveillance to a defensive posture… in order to prevent any infiltration of these armed groups onto national territory.”


Kudos to Ivory Coast for its seriousness about border surveillance and control. Unfortunately, the same jihadists who threaten that region much more seriously at the moment have found success in infiltrating refugee streams and entering Western countries. Open-borders globalists have made it easy for jihadists to infiltrate.



“Ivory Coast Creates Special Military Zone After Jihadist Attack,” AFP, July 13, 2020:

The pre-dawn killing of 14 army personnel at Kafolo, on the country’s border with Burkina Faso, was the first assault by Islamist extremists on Ivorian soil since March 2016, when a raid on the southeastern beach resort of Grand-Bassam left 19 people dead.
“Given the persistent insecurity at the borders between Ivory Coast, Mali and Burkina Faso due to the presence of armed terrorist groups in these neighbouring countries and following the attack,” the government has authorised “the creation of an operational zone,” according to a statement made at the end of a cabinet meeting.
The zone will have a single central command for military operations.
“This northern operational zone will make it possible to move from the phase of border surveillance to a defensive posture… in order to prevent any infiltration of these armed groups onto national territory,” the statement said.
The attack at Kafolo has not been claimed but security sources believe it was carried out by the Group to Support Islam and Muslims (GSIM), an organisation linked to Al-Qaeda.
Around 60 people, including the jihadist leader who led the June 11 assault, were arrested before and after the attack, according to security sources.
It took place in the same zone where Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso launched a ground-breaking joint operation to flush out jihadists in May.
Ivory Coast shares a 550-kilometre (340-mile) border with Burkina Faso, where jihadist violence has claimed nearly 1,000 lives and forced 860,000 people from their homes…

 

[A Singaporean]

China is right in eradicating this venomous religion from Xinjiang.

 

[JohnTan]

The jihadists are simply following the early days of islam's apostles. Destabilize the region with raids, attract followers to their "religious beliefs" with offers of money and sex in paradise.