David Beasley, a former Republican governor of South Carolina, said Europe needed to wake up to the extremists' strategy in Africa's Sahel region, the Guardian reported on Thursday. Those forced out of Syria were uniting with local terrorist groups to use a lack of food as both a recruitment tool and a vehicle to push millions of Africans towards Europe, he said. Beasley told the Guardian: "You are going to face a similar pattern of what took place years ago, except you are going to have more Isis and extremist groups infiltrating migration. But campaign officials have said that at least 2,200 fighters remain entrenched in the east of Syria. Beyond the exploitation of the food crisis in the Sahel region, Beasley said there was a catastrophe in the making on Syria's southern border, where about 5.6 million refugees were struggling to survive.

Source: bd News24 April 26, 2018 08:26 UTC