Combat Team Alpha (CTA) with armored vehicles, special forces and an airlift component deployed in Cabo Delgado. An ad hoc base in Macomia is also under construction.
They exploit the networks dug by the former ISIS when it was in power. Objective: to hide the weapons and missiles from the eyes of the satellites and the F-35s of the Jewish state.
The army blocked a vehicle with two suspected ISWAP militiamen on board, carrying the cargo. Suspicions are growing about the transfer of pro-ISIS jihadists to the South.
The biggest obstacle to the operativity of the anti-ISIS force is the lack of a budget. A solution is being discussed in Baghdad. It could break the deadlock.
Abu Mansour, who traveled between Iraq and Syria, had held various posts among pro-ISIS jihadists and was responsible for the deaths of many civilians in the area.
Oumeya Ould Albakaye was arrested in a raid by Operation Barkhane between Mali and Niger. He was the head of pro-ISIS jihadists Gourma and Oudalan provinces.