Fresh violence has erupted between rival terror factions — Boko Haram’s Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati wal-Jihad (JAS) and the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) — following the breakdown of a fragile truce that briefly halted years of deadly rivalry in the Lake Chad region.
Sources confirmed that dozens of fighters, mostly from ISWAP, were killed in renewed clashes that underscore the deepening divisions between the Bakoura-led JAS faction and ISWAP. The hostilities, which resumed in late October, are reportedly part of an ongoing cycle of revenge attacks triggered by the killing of Abu Abass, a senior JAS tax collector, by ISWAP operatives in September.Read Full Details Here.