The President of U.S, Barack Obama, proposed a $200 million budget to fight Islamic State in Africa, Reuters reported on February 9 citing high officials from the White House.

“The marginal increase is on the order of about $200 million associated with North Africa,” an US defense official told Reuters on condition of anonymity. Another official from the ministry however said the concerned funds were directed to West Africa.

General Vincent Stewart, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, on February 8 warned of the expansion of Islamic State in Libya, Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, Nigeria, Algeria and other countries in Africa.

Last January 28, the U.S president declared he was ready to launch aerial bombings on sites and arsenals of the Islamic State in Libya.

According to data from the White House, IS has 6500 men in Libya, from 3000 three months ago; so the headquarters in Rakka (Syria) dispatched some 12 officials and 10 imams to insure a better structuring.

Meeting in Rome to discuss the situation in Iraq and Syria, the 23 member-states of the anti-IS force spoke on February 2^nd of potential upcoming operations against the terrorist group in Libya.  

However, the remaining condition according to them is the formation in Libya of a single government accepted both by sides, Tobrouk’s and Tripoli’s, to green-light the operation and make it formal.