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How US-UAE partnership aids fight against ISIS Propaganda in Africa, beyond
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By Omar Ghobash and Christopher Hodges
ISIS’s “online Caliphate” has metastasized despite the group’s military defeat in Iraq and Syria, including an alarming rise of jihadist propaganda in Sub-Saharan Africa.
The Sawab Center, a joint U.S.-UAE social media and content creation hub, is pushing back.
The Global Coalition to Defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) toppled the group from its areas of territorial control in the Middle East, but since then ISIS’s “online Caliphate” has metastasized.
Too often, we have seen ISIS and other extremists misrepresent religion and political grievances to serve their own ends, contributing to the destabilization of fragile states and causing untold suffering.