March 8, 2016

Al Arabiya: Fake allegiance? ISIS and Boko Haram may not be that close – Interview with Yan St-Pierre

March 6, 2016

Al Arabiya

Al-Arabiya picked up on AFP‘s interview with Yan St-Pierre, conducted by Phil Hazlewood, and asks in their analysis: “Fake allegiance? ISIS and Boko Haram may not be that close“.

Yan St-Pierre, of the Modern Security Consulting Group, said there was no doubt that Boko Haram had been reaching out to other militant groups for “business and logistics” in the last year. Since West African and sub-Saharan fighters operating in Libya are now thought to have dispersed, different groups in the region have been working together to provide funding, equipment and personnel, he added. “Hence the belief that AQIM (Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb) and some BH constellation groups are increasing their collaboration despite BH having officially pledged to ISIS,” he said in an email.

A slightly longer article was published by Yahoo News as “Little to show in Boko Haram-IS partnership“.

To read the full articles, please refer to the links above.