"The persistent allegations that the Islamic State has set up training camps in Libya are particularly worrisome. If the situation in Libya is not quickly brought under control, many states in the region could be destabilized in the near future," said Hiroute Guebre-Sellassie, an Ethiopian who was named to the position in May by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
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Last week, US Army Gen. David Rodriguez told journalists at the Pentagon that the brutal terrorist organization was training insurgents at military camps in eastern Libya.
Guebre-Sellassie stressed that Boko Haram's atrocities in northern Nigeria had become a "major threat" to some Sahel countries, displacing tens of thousands of people. Boko Haram is a militant Islamist organization working out of Nigeria. The organization, whose name translates as "Western education is forbidden", has been responsible for numerous attacks on African schools and kidnaps.
The African Union Peace and Security Council at its November 25 meeting on Boko Haram called on the Security Council to provide support to Benin, Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria in a Multinational Joint Task Force to combat the Islamist threat.
