#ISIS in the Greater #Sahara "remains the most dangerous group in the tri-border area" per new @UN report "...where it benefits from the support of family members within local communities and reported financial agreements with some armed groups in #Mali"
#ISIS-Greater #Sahara "less isolated than in previous years" per @UN member state intel
ISGS "can build on its direct contacts with the #ISIL core" per the report, which adds it is still "operationally distinct" from #ISIS-West #Africa Province
Peaceful coexistence between #ISIS-Greater #Sahara & Jama’a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (#JNIM) is over, per @UN report
"Major clashes started in March 2020 and JNIM was reinforced by Tuareg groups and self-defence militias from northern #Mali..."
#ISIS-West #Africa Province estimated by @UN member states to have about 3,500 members - despite leadership turmoil
Former ISIS-WAP leader Ba Idrissa "may have been deposed and possibly killed with the blessing of the #ISIL core" & replaced by Abu Hapsa
#ISIS-Central #Africa Province "continued to mutate" during 1st half of 2020 "as its operatives remained resolute in their focus to establish a caliphate despite incurring losses & casualties" per @UN report
#ISIS-Central #Africa Province may be getting #foreignfighters
"A Member State reported an influx of suspected foreign terrorist fighters attempting to conceal their identities through requests for refugee status" per @UN report
"There is ongoing tracking of several #Somali & other nationals who applied for refugee & asylum status but later disappeared" per the @UN report
re #ISIS-Central #Africa Province & #foreignfighters
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