European Eye on Radicalization
Joining EER on the podcast today is Jacob Zenn, the editor of the Terrorism Monitor at the The Jamestown Foundation, to talk about the Islamic State (ISIS) reasserting its dominance over its renegade branch, Boko Haram, in Nigeria. The ongoing challenge of Al-Qaeda’s Al-Shabab, perhaps the most powerful jihadist group in Africa, to Somalia and its neighbors, and ISIS’s branch in the country, was also discussed. Other topics included ISIS’s outposts in the Congo and Mozambique, their interconnectedness with ISIS’s other hotspots in Africa and the potential dangers to neighboring states; the competition between ISIS and Al-Qaeda in West Africa that has been ongoing since 2020; and the implications of ISIS’s financial infrastructure in South Africa.
