Africa has become an increasingly important hub for funneling money to ISIS
affiliates and fighters, according to a report published last week by the





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ISIS Increasingly Looking To Africa To Fund Operations, U.N. Security Council
Reports



(New York, N.Y.) — Africa has become an increasingly important hub for
funneling money to ISIS affiliates and fighters, according to areport
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published last week by the U.N. Security Council. In one instance, funds
generated by Kenyan and Ugandan ISIS supporters in South Africa are being
laundered for the benefit of the ISIS-affiliated Allied Democratic Forces in
the Democratic Republic of Congo. Additionally, the report mentions how ISIS in
Somalia hosts the Al-Karrar office, a financial hub that allocates substantial
funds to ISIS’s affiliate in Afghanistan, ISIS-K, by way of Yemen, with a
potential link to Kenya or even a cell in the United Kingdom. ISIS-K reportedly
uses these funds to acquire new weapons and pay the salaries of fighters.



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“ISIS continues to adapt to efforts to disrupt its finance channels. One
strategy is to diversify its income streams as well as decentralize its
financing away from its center downwards to its regional affiliates. The
development of new channels and funding strategies by the organization will
only increase the global threat from ISIS. As ISIS expands its global financial
network throughout Africa, policymakers should not hesitate to act,” said
Counter Extremism Project (CEP) Senior DirectorDr. Hans-Jakob Schindler
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funding leads to increased attacks and further geographic expansion. Therefore,
it is imperative that the international community strengthen its efforts to
detect and disrupt terror financing benefitting ISIS.”



“It’s tempting for Westerners to see the increased activity and quality of
ISIS attacks in Syria within the past month as a relatively contained threat.
The data and evidence in the U.N. Security Council’s report, however,
demonstrate otherwise. ISIS continues to pose a significant threat globally and
a global effort is required to reign them in,” stated CEP research analyst
Gregory Waters.



Despite its territorial losses in Iraq and Syria, ISIS continues to maintain
and expand its global presence. The group has declared wilayat (provinces,
governorates) in Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Yemen, Saudi Arabia,
Nigeria, Afghanistan, Africa, and the North Caucasus. Within the first seven
months of 2019, ISIS announced new provinces in India, Pakistan, Turkey, and
Central Africa. The group continued to expand, and in March 2021, the United
States designated ISIS’s provinces in Mozambique and the Democratic Republic of
the Congo. Beyond this, the terror group attracts considerable sympathy or has
waged attacks in Turkey, Morocco, Tunisia, the Philippines, Lebanon,
Bangladesh, Indonesia, and the Palestinian territories.



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