Boko Haram has released new images of it’s fighters and are now calling itself Islamic State’s West Africa Province.
In March, Boko Haram pledged allegiance to Islamic State.
In March, Boko Haram pledged allegiance to Islamic State.
Boko Haram has formally declared an alliance with the Islamic State according to an audio record released on March 7, 2015, which was uploaded via a Twitter handle.
This comes one day after Nigeria said the army has launched attacks in Sambisa Forest, which is seen is the last hideout of Boko Haram.
There were reports that the 200 schoolgirls abducted by the group a year ago are being held in Sambisa Forest.
The Nigerian military are continuing operations in the forest as the terrorists have reportedly run out of arms and ammunition.
Boko Haram and ISIS are separated by nearly 2,500 kilometers geographically, but their operational and ideological similarities are highly inter-connected. Thus far, direct links between the two groups have not been documented, but Boko Haram’s verbal support for ISIS and its modeling aspects of the insurgency in Nigeria on ISIS’s strategy in Iraq and Syria suggests a potential ambition of Boko Haram for a closer relationship–possibly even direct collaboration.
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