Jihadism’s last redoubt

e from strength to strength, with up to 2,000 followers. Like Boko Haram, it recruits and kidnaps child soldiers, and sees schools as targets for headline-grabbing atrocities.

Remember the Lord's Resistance Army? They were an ultra-violent Christian group – from Uganda originally, like the Muslim ADF – responsible for countless atrocities during the 1990s and 2000s. They too, like the ADF, kidnapped schoolchildren as slaves/recruits. They disappeared into the forests of the eastern Congo and are now little more than a reduced remnant of outlaws. It's the turn of the Muslims now…