2023-08-25 15:58:09
This week, ISIS claimed responsibility for several attacks in the north of the country.
Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi announced Friday, August 25, the death of jihadist Bonamade Machude Omar said Ibn Omar.
He was the military leader of “Ahl al Sunna wal jamm’a” (people of tradition and consensus) better known as “al-shabab” (students).
According to the head of state of Mozambique, the jihadist was killed on August 22 in the north of the country where the insurgents, affiliated with the Islamic State since 2019, are active.
Designated an international terrorist as the spiritual leader of the group, the Tanzanian Abu Yassir Hassan, the Mozambican Ibn Omar led the famous March 2021 attack on the city of Palma.
After this raid, more than a thousand Rwandan soldiers and troops from southern African countries were deployed in Mozambique, at the request of Maputo. Thus in 2022, the port of Mocimboa da Praia, occupied for a year by the insurgents, was taken over by the Rwandan forces.
Analyst at Control Risks, a consulting firm specializing in political, security and integrity risk management, Tristan Gueret considers the death of Ibn Omar and several other commanders as “another indication that counter-insurgency efforts have had an impact on the jihadist group which is on the decline”.
The specialist in the jihadist insurgency in northern Mozambique believes that radical Islamists lost their “operational freedom in 2023” and this was reflected in the “decline in the frequency of militant attacks in Cabo Delgado” compared to 2022 . ” Militant cells had to change areas of operation frequently to escape military pressure “, he points out.
In this context, the death of Ibn Omar can be considered as a “hard blow” which will further test the organizational capacities of the group, continues Mr. Gueret.
However, the specialist believes that jihadists still pose a threat in the central districts of Cabo Delgado, noting that “precedents have shown that militant groups are able to recover from the death of their main members”. Since 2014, the Islamic State has lost four “caliphs”, but continues to be a threat to global security.
The Mozambican head of state assured that the death of the jihadist leader does not put an end to the fight once morest terrorism in the north of the country.
This week, ISIS claimed responsibility for several deadly attacks once morest Mozambican soldiers.
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