Threat From Al-Qaeda-Affiliated Terrorist Groups Growing in Africa: UN Report

A report submitted to the U.N. Security Council said two Islamist terrorist groups, al-Shabaab and JNIM, continued to gain territory.

Armed al-Shabab fighters just outside the capital Mogadishu, Somalia, on Dec. 8, 2008. Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP

The threat from various offshoots of the terrorist groups ISIS and al-Qaeda is growing in parts of Africa, and they are seizing more territory, according to a July 24 report sent to the U.N. Security Council.

The report by the U.N.’s analytical support and sanctions monitoring team was published as another Islamist terrorist group, al-Shabaab, captured a key town, Mahaas, in Somalia on July 27, according to witnesses.