- The Foundation for Peace Professionals (PeacePro) has disclosed that more than 80 percent of the global operations tied to ISIS are now situated within West Africa and the Sahel region.
- Empirical data gathered from regional security assessments points to a substantial drop in extremist activities across historical ISIS territories like Iraq and Syria, contrasted by a severe increase in the Lake Chad Basin.
- Security experts are calling directly upon the Nigerian Federal Government to spearhead an aggressive, technology-driven multilateral offensive alongside international partners to disrupt transnational logistics and border vulnerabilities.
The Foundation for Peace Professionals (PeacePro) has raised an alarm indicating that more than 80 percent of global operations linked to the extremist group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) are now concentrated in West Africa and the Sahel corridor.
Eko Hot Blog reports that this alarming disclosure, which highlights the region’s emergence as the absolute epicenter of global terrorism, aligns with escalating internal security anxieties in areas like Kwara State following recent insurgent incursions into vulnerable border towns such as Yashikira in the Baruten Local Government Area.
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In an official statement delivered on Tuesday, PeacePro Executive Director Abdulrazaq Hamzat explained that this statistical assessment is backed by a meticulous comparative analysis of global incident frequency, operational scale, and overall attribution metrics pulled from open-source intelligence, regional conflict tracking, and underreported security data.
According to the specialized data analysis, which closely evaluated conflict theatres across the Middle East, Central Africa, and the sub-Saharan Sahel, there has been a radical geographical realignment of violent extremism.
While traditional ISIS strongholds across Iraq and Syria have witnessed a marked decline in active operational capacity, regional franchises operating throughout West Africa have grown exponentially, now generating the vast majority of coordinated territorial incursions, combat fatalities, and tactical attacks associated with the global terror network.
PeacePro further observed that this aggressive operational intensity inside the Lake Chad Basin and neighboring territories accounts for the expanding visibility and prominence of homegrown Nigerian fighters within the core command structures of ISIS.
Warning that this massive operational migration represents a highly dangerous shift in international security dynamics, PeacePro emphasized that the situation demands immediate, synchronized intervention from both regional authorities and global stakeholders.
The body noted that the scale and structural persistence of these attacks reveal adaptive insurgent recruiting mechanisms and highly advanced local networks that could easily export long-term instability beyond the West African continent if left unaddressed.
Consequently, the group has charged the Federal Government of Nigeria, owing to its strategic frontline position in the ongoing counterinsurgency war, to aggressively galvanize a unified international response to dismantle these networks.
To effectively neutralize this expanding threat, PeacePro recommended that Nigerian authorities prioritize the deployment of advanced counterterrorism technologies, rapidly optimize cross-border intelligence-sharing frameworks, and launch a decisive multilateral offensive targeted at cutting off the transnational financing and logistics lines sustaining the militants.
The organization strongly concluded that while state forces must move swiftly to prevent insurgent groups from deepening their roots within vulnerable communities, all ongoing counterterrorism strategies must remain completely intelligence-driven, evidence-based, and tightly aligned with international human rights obligations to ensure lasting regional stability.
