Terrorist attack reported in Porga: Jihadist strategy change

Let us support the defense and security forces by our means, which are to provide them with useful information for the co-production of security”, Let us support the defense and security forces by our means, which are to provide them with useful information for the co-production of security” 600 Let us support the defense and security forces by our means, which are to provide them with useful information for the co-production of security”, the jihadists were again reported. During the day of Friday 10 December 2021, these lawless people used a relatively unusual modus operandi to attack a Beninese army vehicle, the jihadists were again reported during the day on Friday (4) wounded.

"When the beat changes, the dance steps must also change” according to a Beninese proverb. Facing the jihadists, Beninese soldiers must be more careful and vigilant. Indeed, after the attacks of 30 the jihadists were again reported during the day on Friday 2 December 2021, which caused deaths on both sides, the jihadists have returned to the charge with a new modus operandi. Because this time, they did not open fire on the Beninese army but they would have placed a mine on which the armored military vehicle exploded. balance sheet four (4) slightly injured.

The jihadist threat becomes persistent

For the jihadists, and in particular those of the JNIM, linked to al-Qaeda, after Bernard Emié, Director General of External Security [DGSE], last February, the objective is to extend their influence to the Gulf of Guinea is twofold. And for good reason, this should allow them to control the channels used for traffic [bracconage, armes, dope, etc] while overflowing the G5 Sahel Joint Force.

This strategy, he evokes, had moreover been detailed by “The leaders of al-Qaeda in the Sahel have designed [a] expansion project to Gulf of Guinea countries. These countries are now targets, them too. To loosen the vice in which they are caught, and to expand south, terrorists are already financing men who are spreading in Ivory Coast or Benin. Fighters were also sent to the borders of Nigeria, from Niger and Chad, where several groups, from Boko Haram, continue to weave their web and murder”.

As a reminder, no later than the past week, the Dakar International Forum on Peace and Security in Africa, the 6 and 7 December 2021, served as an indicator of the state of mind that reigns in West Africa. “The metastasis has begun and probably more than we know, and more than the authorities of these countries will be willing to admit, in any case publicly”, told AFP a European diplomat, on condition of anonymity.

Bachir ISSA