Armed extremist groups in North and West Africa may have pledged allegiance to Al-Qaeda's vision of global jihad, but they act independently of its core command and have yet to make good on threats to strike the West. Counterterrorism experts meeting in Washington noted an increase in anti-Western rhetoric from groups in the Sahel, Nigeria and Somalia, but said that African militant groups were still fighting local wars. And the United States and its allies should be cautious, they warned, of intervening in these struggles and giving African Islamists a reason to expand their campaigns to target European and American interests. Al-Qaeda's Yemeni franchise, once locked in a local struggle, is now an international threat that has put parcel bombs on planes and trained a Nigerian to make a failed suicide attack on a passenger jet.
All we just keep praying and asking for is nothing but PEACE. If only we can get it as Africans.