The Islamic State group, essentially pushed out of Iraq and Syria by a U.S.-led coalition in March 2019, has re-established itself in Africa, conducting attacks in 13 countries, capturing territory and establishing de facto governments in portions of two of them in the past year and a half, a report by a West Point-affiliated policy institute says.
The militant Islamists, which went by the names of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and later by Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), have re-established themselves largely in west and central Africa and the Sinai Peninsula, with its strongest presence in northeast Nigeria, the Combatting Terrorism Center at the U.S. Military Academy says.
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Update: THE CALIPHATE RETURNS ISIS taking over swathes of Africa like it did in Syria and Iraq with ‘staggeringly brutal’ tactics, Pentagon warns (The SUN)
WNU Editor: You can now add a 14th country to the list of African nations under attack by ISIS .... Tanzania hit by recent ISIS attack near Mozambique border (News24).
This is why:
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Fertility rate was linked in the past at least to child or infant mortality rate. Reduce the latter and the former also use to follow.
ReplyDeleteThere is a social element such as religion, ethic chauvinism, family or individual chauvinism (& other causes).
This makes the case for women to be other than mothers or incubators. I hate to use the term women's liberation, because the Left uses and misuses terms so much.
Women's political rights should not be artificially constructed so that they have rights to others people's money, where they can have the resources of others to support having babies from 4 to 20 or however many they desire.
Pacific Islands are a microcosm of the world. Pre-contact and for obvious reasons they didn't allow people to have as many children as they want.
very very clever move isis if not brilliant
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