Afghanistan, the African front opens. Axis between Taliban, Shabaab and Islamists

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The evolution of the Afghan crisis has given strength to Islamic fundamentalists who have been operating in the Sahel for years, where there is a new attack by jihadists against regular soldiers. After that of 18 August in Burkina Faso, now it is the turn of Mali, where yesterday fifteen soldiers were killed and several others were wounded in an ambush on a military convoy near Boni in the center of the country. According to reports from the Fides agency, a car bomb exploded as the convoy passed, followed by heavy gunshots, according to an official note, according to which efforts are underway to evacuate the wounded. According to some sources, the jihadists managed to seize some military vehicles armed with machine guns. The ambush took place along the important artery that connects Gao to Mopti, the national road 16. An area that a group linked to Al Quida tries to control.

Afghanistan, possible axis between the Taliban, Al Shabaab and other Islamist groups

Ambushes and attacks with explosive devices are recurrent, particularly in central Mali and in the three border regions between Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso. On the side of Burkina Faso there was the assault on August 18, the toll of which became even heavier and rose to 80 dead, of which 65 are civilians. As Repubblica writes, an axis between the Taliban and the Al Shabaab militiamen is possible. In Somalia, the Al Shabaab group has already sworn allegiance to Al Qaeda. “God is great” read on a site near the group after the fall of Kabul. While in Mali Iyad Ag Ghaly, leader of the radical group Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin, reappeared after 2 years to congratulate the Taliban.

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