Subscribe nowWhen the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) split from its predecessor organization, Abubakar Shekau’s faction of Boko Haram in 2016, it began developing a more systematic media strategy. The founding dispute with Shekau centered in part on the legitimacy of indiscriminate predation against Muslim civilians. ISWAP’s propaganda subsequently became a key tool for communicating with local populations and projecting the group as…
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