This comeback of the Islamic State Organization (OEI) takes place despite the elimination in August 2021 of the group's emir, Abu al-Walid al-Sahraoui, by French forces. 

Wassim Nasr, specialist in jihadist movements at France 24, discusses the issues of this violence in three points.

  • How to explain this return to power, despite the elimination in August 2021, of the group's emir, Abu al-Walid al-Sahraoui, by French forces?

  • What is the position of JNIM/AQIM, the rival jihadist group of IS and still dominant in the Sahel? 

  • And what is the room for maneuver of the local armies, the UN forces of the Minusma and the Barkhane mission?

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