Very important TikTok video from #JASDJ #BokoHaram cleric tinyurl.com/4p7a5rju (yes, I know, jihadist clerics use the same media as make-up obsessed teens). Here is why...
This is important because attitude towards civilians used to be a major difference between #JASDJ and the Islamic State local affiliate, #ISWAP. JASDJ was a sectarian plunder-and-kidnap machine, hitting hard at all non-members, including Muslims.
#Djihad dans le bassin du lac #Tchad: histoires récentes et évolution des modes d'action du #JASDJ et de l' #ISWAP face aux réponses insuffisantes des Etats désunis du bassin. On en parle peu, @vincentfoucher.bsky.social fait le point dans @afriquexxi.bsky.social
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Indeed, I have direct testimonies from former #JASDJ #BokoHaram fighters that they were recently buying ammo from rogue Cameroonian soldiers. (I strongly suspect there are a few such rogue soldiers in all armies around, nothing Cameroonian about that).
Not easy to follow, but there seems to be a lot of security incidents in the Chadian Région du Lac. #JASDJ #BokoHaram seems fully at it - not attacking the military, but preying on civilians. Lots of kidnappings. Extracting ransom? Or trying to exert a degree of control?
6/x But #JASDJ and #ISWAP, the factions of Boko Haram would carry on without this. They'd buy from others, plunder from others. The ones who will suffer from a drop in assistance will be mostly innocent civilians.
Sur X, @HumPurse signale un enlèvement avec demande de rançon de #JASDJ #BokoHaram #Bakura le 23.01.2025... une vingtaine de pêcheurs enlevés dans la zone de pêche de #KasuwarMaria dans la zone du #LacTchad à l'Est de #Darack. Une rançon de 06 millions de NAIRA exigés par les ravisseurs.
A new massacre of 40+ farmers near Baga by #ISWAP #BokoHaram. According to @zagazola.bsky.social, ISWAP did that because they suspected these civilians of treason (in this instance, apparently of collusion with the rival #JASDJ faction). zagazola.org/index.php/br...
Dans le petit podcast ci-joint, je réponds à Enrica Picco et Rinaldo Depagne de @crisisgroup.org à propos de #BokoHaram. On parle de l'attaque de #JASDJ côté Tchad, de la contre-offensive tchadienne, de la FMM/MNJTF, des bases économiques des djihads de la zone... www.crisisgroup.org/fr/africa/ce...
Indeed, indeed, the #BokoHaram word is often doing a lot of work... But if this is in Niger State, so it could indeed be Sadiku's very own group, and thus #JASDJ...
Bonne discussion accueillie par Eric Topona de la Deutsche Welle autour de l'attaque de #BokoHaram #JASDJ #Bakura au Tchad - et de ses suites avec Seidik Abba et Rémadji Hoinathy www.dw.com/fr/pourquoi-...
Hearing some news from Lake Chad #BokoHaram... the Chadian military got fairly deep into the lake, to the vicinity of Madayi, on the Chad-Nigeria border. #ISWAP land, actually, not that of #JASDJ (which is the faction that carried out the attack on the Chadian garrison in Barkaram).