Dec 30, 2024 · The boys were tax collectors and foot soldiers of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), one of the world’s most brutal terror groups. Over the years, ISWAP had shifted from mindless destruction to calculated economic exploitation.

Jul 10, 2019 · In exchange, ISWAP imposes taxes that people appear willing to pay. Secure trade routes mean that everyday commodities – the most important of which for ISWAP is fuel – can reach the islands. In ISWAP-controlled areas, fishermen, fish dealers and cattle rearers are all expected to pay taxes.

As their operations expand, one of the key income streams is the institution of zakat, the 10 percent alms tax every Muslim must pay, supplemented by the jizya, the non-Muslim tax. Additionally, robberies and kidnapping of high-value targets is rampant.

Taxes in 2018 brought ISWAP some 45% of its income, the fish trade provided another 30% of its income, and the trade in dried pepper and rice provided 10% and 11.39% each. From interviews with ISWAP affiliated individuals (regional states’ military, mil-itary intelligence and civilian intelligence officers with extensive knowledge of

Among its taxes, ISWAP also collects the zakat, a traditional Muslim tax and form of almsgiving which is used to provide for the poor. ISWAP's zakat has been featured in propaganda distributed by IS's newspaper, al-Naba. [4]

Since around May 2022, shortly after the Operation Lake Sanity military offensives began, ISWAP nearly doubled tax rates on communities around the Lake Chad area. In response, populations have increasingly turned against the armed group, refusing to pay them.

Jan 19, 2022 · Some of the tax receipts issued by the Islamic State-backed faction of Boko Haram, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), to farmers and herdsman in the North-East states have been...

Feb 28, 2022 · Mohammed said the ISWAP local administration in Kukawa had fixed 20 per cent of the entire harvest from approved farmland as compulsory tax. “If you harvest 10 bags of beans from a piece of farmland, for example, ISWAP takes two bags as tax, and it is non-negotiable.

May 24, 2018 · Reuters and DW identifies this Boko Haram faction as led by Musab al-Barnawi and known as the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWA or ISWAP), a rival to the faction led by Abubakar Shekau,...

Farmers and other residents of Damboa in Borno State have started paying Zakat (taxes) to the dreaded members of the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP), Daily Trust has reliably...