On May 11, Morocco will host a meeting of the Global Coalition To Defeat ISIS, which will be held for the first time on the African continent and will focus on efforts to combat the organization that has re-emerged in southern Libya.

According to Moroccan media, the meeting will be co-chaired by Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita and American Antony Blinken, with the participation of representatives of more than 80 countries and international organizations.

Regarding the meeting’s objectives, it seeks to discuss ways of working and cooperating to confront the terrorist threat on the African continent, at a time when the extremist organization has lost much of its power and influence, but experts fear that the Sahel and West African countries will become new hotbeds for it.

An informed source told the Moroccan website Le 360: “We have certainly achieved great successes against ISIS in Syria and Iraq, but the war is not over yet. On the contrary, we are witnessing a re-deployment of ISIS, especially in Africa.”

The organization has returned to the top of the scene in Libya, taking advantage of the power vacuum and the state of political and military division. A groups affiliated with ISIS attempted to infiltrate the Ghadwa area located in the city of Sebha, in an operation that was confronted by LNA forces.

Before that, the organization announced its responsibility for a car bomb attack, which targeted a camp for the Tariq bin Ziyad Brigade in the Umm al-Aranib area, south of the country, wounding three members of the army and causing material losses.

ISIS was expelled from the city of Sirte at the end of 2016. Its fighters have been moving around desert locations in southern Libya, where it is difficult to monitor or chase them.