Intelligence Brief | Islamic State Celebrates Christian Persecution by African Branches in DRC and Mozambique
Ujasusi Blog’s Terrorism Monitor Desk | 🗓️08 August 2025 | 🕛0000 BST
1. 🔍 Overview
The Islamic State (IS) has, in its official weekly publication al-Naba, elevated its African affiliates—particularly in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Mozambique —to a new level of ideological importance. The latest editorial devotes significant attention to the systematic persecution of Christian communities, praising forced conversions, executions, and the imposition of jizya (a tax on non-Muslims).
Africa is no longer portrayed as a secondary front. It is now positioned as the ideological and operational vanguard of IS's global jihadist enterprise.
2. 🩸 Persecution of Christians as Operational Doctrine
The editorial outlines a triad of options given to Christians under Islamic State control:
Convert to Islam;
Pay the jizya tax and submit to IS authority;
Face execution.