Ahmed Sultan
The United States will seek additional international cooperation to fight Daesh on a global scale, with a particular focus on Africa, following the defeat of the group in Iraq and Syria, a State Department official said on Thursday, August 1.
Defense Post added in an article that speaking at a press conference in Washington, State Department Counterterrorism Coordinator Ambassador Nathan Sales said the next stage of the counter-Daesh campaign will require international coordination to combat the group’s expansion in Africa, Southeast Asia, and Afghanistan.
The so-called DAESH Caliphate has been destroyed, but the DAESH brand lives on around the world,” Sales said, speaking alongside U.S. Envoy to the anti-DAESH Coalition James Jeffrey.
“We are now working closely with our partners to identify focus regions for the Coalition, and expect to have more clarity soon on where we intend to be active.” Sales said a Coalition meeting on the situation in West Africa and the Sahel is set for autumn.
“In Africa, DAESH-linked groups are on the rise. Daesh-linked groups now span the African continent from east to west, from north to south,” Sales said.
“They’ve increased the lethality of their attacks, they’ve expanded into new areas, and they repeatedly target U.S. interests,” he said, referencing the killing of four U.S. Special Forces members in Niger in October 2017, which he said was carried out by “Daesh affiliates.”
Sales also referenced the killing of “hundreds of Nigerian forces in the past year” by Daesh West Africa Province, and a May attack in Tongo Tongo in northern Niger in May, in which Daesh claimed its West Africa Province fighters killed 40 Nigerien soldiers.
Perhaps the most significant threat comes from Daesh West Africa Province in Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon. Since May, Daesh has attributed insurgent activities in the Mali-Burkina Faso-Niger tri-border area to its West Africa Province affiliate, rather than to what was previously known as Daesh in the Greater Sahara.
The recently announced Daesh Central Africa Province is a smaller but ongoing threat in Democratic Republic of Congo and Mozambique.
Daesh also has acknowledged affiliates that have not been given the higher status of provinces in Tunisia, Somalia and Yemen.
Moreover, Daesh affiliates from Libya and the Sinai in north Africa, to Mozambique in the southeast pose a growing threat to often fragile nations on the continent.
Perhaps the most significant threat comes from Daesh West Africa Province in Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon. Since May, Daesh has attributed insurgent activities in the Mali-Burkina Faso-Niger tri-border area to its West Africa Province affiliate, rather than to what was previously known as Daesh in the Greater Sahara.
In May, Burkina Faso called for an international coalition to tackle terrorism in the G5 Sahel states – Chad, Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania and Niger – and across the entire Sahel. That was followed earlier this month, when Niger’s president echoed the call for an international coalition to fight insurgency in the Sahel, “just as there was a coalition against Daesh in the Middle East.”
The G5 Sahel nations are building their own G5 Sahel Joint Force, a counter-terrorism initiative that will work alongside personnel deployed to the 4,500-strong France-led Operation Barkhane counter-terror mission in the Sahel, as well as the the U.N.’s third-largest peacekeeping mission, MINUSMA in Mali, which has about 14,000 personnel deployed. There have been repeated calls for consistent direct U.N. funding for the G5 Sahel Joint Force, but the U.S. opposes the move, preferring instead bilateral funding for individual states.
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