Will al-Qaeda and Daesh alliances succeed in Africa?

A few weeks ago, Daesh announced the establishment of a new branch in Central Africa, about four years after the establishment of its Nigerian branch in West Africa. The organization broadcast a new video of its elements in Central Africa.

At the end of last April, al-Baghdadi praised the branches of his organization in Africa, praising the operations carried out by the Abu-Al-Sahrawi group operating in the so-called Central African state.

In April 2013, al-Baghdadi, after its gunmen took control of the eastern city of Raqqa, issued statements that the Front of Victory was only an extension of its organization, the Islamic State of Iraq, stressing that it had decided to merge the two organizations under a new name, The Islamic state in Iraq and the Levant, “but the leader of the victory, Abu Muhammad al-Julani, rejected this declaration and insisted on the independence of its organization, and announced the sale of al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri, and brought the standing of al-Qaeda in the front line victory, hostility enmity organization.

At the beginning of 2018, during a videotape, the organization published a version of one of its websites, describing al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri as the “apostate” and the nation’s saboteur, and attacking all al-Qaeda or allied organizations, Somalia and the Taliban in Afghanistan.

In the past period, and in Syria in particular, the elements of the organization of the remaining “Daesh”, the various armed factions, have denounced and considered it responsible for the defeat it has suffered. However, on the contrary, what happened inside the African continent is that both Al-Qaeda and Al- »Inside the Black Continent, in spreading chaos and terrorism.

In June 2019, intelligence reports revealed that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the organization, had called for the appointment of Abulid Sahrawi to be responsible for the organization’s branch in Africa, specifically in Burkina Faso, South Africa, the Congo and Mozambique, as well as its armed operations in Niger and Mali.

Al-Sahrawi, the leader of al-Tawhid wal Jihad in West Africa, which is affiliated with al-Qaeda, and in May 2015, the Sahrawi, announced the allegiance of his group known as the Murabitun to the leader of Da’ash.

According to the head of the UN mission in Mali, Mohamed Saleh Anadif, there is growing evidence that both al-Qaeda and groups associated with the Dahedash organization in West Africa are cooperating at the operational level.

Hisham al-Najjar, a researcher on Islamic movements, said that the state of the alliance that al-Qaeda and al-Qaeda are living in Africa is exceptional in some areas and is in favor of a “Daesh.”

Al-Najjar said in a statement to the «reference», that it seems that «Daesh» is the initiator of the request of the coalition, and shows flexibility towards the « Al Qaeda » for several purposes, including expanding the area of ​​his presence in this new place, especially as he is in the minds of his leaders create alternative succession In addition to the fact that «Da’ash» tries to elicit the members and leaders of «Al Qaeda», and is intended from the rapprochement to open outlets for contact with them to attract them, adding that the coalition at this stage comes in the context of the «balance of weakness» Both organizations are seeking to balance the strength facing them by strengthening each other Some.