Report of the conference The Islamic State and Jihad in Africa

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  Journalist and former lecturer at the University of
  Amsterdam Bertus Hendriks, ASC director Prof. Ton
  Dietz and ASC senior researcher Prof. Stephen Ellis.

The African Studies Centre Leiden organized a conference (on invitation) about the nature and extent of connections between Islamic State - generally known as IS or ISIS or Da’esh - in Iraq and Syria and various jihadi movements in Africa on 27 March 2015. During the conference - convened by Professor Stephen Ellis and Professor Benjamin Soares - participants discussed the history, nature and relations of IS, Boko Haram, al-Shabaab and its Kenyan affiliate al-Hijra, and the African countries in which these movements are most active.

Read the report below (pdf).

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  Some of the participants of the conference.