It’s calling on the continental organization codevelop cooperative mechanism to control the jihadis.

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Algerian Prime Minister Abdelmajid Teboune was speaking for his President Abdelziz Bouteflika who’s been made the AU coordinator against violent extremism and terrorism.

He says more than 5 000 young Africans have joined jihadi groups in Iraq, Syria and the Sahel.

Their radical and violent ideas  pose a danger to their own countries when they come home – as Algeria learned to its cost with militants returning from fighting Russians in Afghanistan a quarter of a century ago.

Bouteflika says Africa must cooperate to curb the extremists by limiting their movement with stricter controls on transport and tougher  border controls

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