TY  - SER
AU  - Zenn, Jacob
TI  - Wilayat West Africa Reboots for the Caliphate
KW  - Estado Islámico
KW  - Terrorismo internacional
KW  - África Occidental
N2  - After a nearly one-year-long “courtship process” that began when Boko Haram leader Abu Bakr Shekau claimed the Chibok kidnapping in May 2014, on March 7, 2015, Shekau pledged baya`a to Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Al-Baghdadi via his spokesman accepted Shekau’s baya`a and renamed the group as the Islamic State’s Wilayat West Africa, thereby rendering “Boko Haram” obsolete. In the next two months, ten other Islamic State wilayat in Algeria, Libya, Yemen, Syria and Iraq issued videos praising Shekau’s baya`a. Wilayat West Africa became the most significant of the Islamic State’s more than 30 claimed wilayat in terms of number of militants, territory controlled, and operational capacity
UR  - https://www.ctc.usma.edu/v2/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/CTCSentinel-Vol8Issue816.pdf
ER  -