ISIS jihadis have their sights set on Africa and are already making inroads, PM to tell world leaders

WORLD leaders must step up the fight to contain twisted ISIS fighters to stop them colonising Africa next, Theresa May will warn the G20 summit.

MI6 have detected hundreds of fanatical troops moving south into already troubled sub-Saharan countries.

Having been squeezed out of Libya by a US-lead special forces assault, the fighters are regrouping in Niger, Chad, Mali and Sudan, as well in desert pockets of Tunisia and Algeria.

It is feared they will soon pose a serious threat to the desperately poor states when they begin radicalising locals.

A British official said last night: “Daesh fighters are moving south from Libya.

“We want to get one step ahead of them and prevent their next build-up somewhere else.

“These people are very committed to their cause and they are determined to destroy our way of life.”

Mrs May flies to the Chinese city of Hangzhou today to take her place alongside the leaders of the world’s richest 20 countries for the first time.

The annual two-day G20 summit begins tomorrow.

The new PM will use a security session on Monday to issue her alarm bell warning and call on the US, France, China and Russia to give more help to the so-called 'Sahel' states so they can “step up their efforts”, the official added.

The PM will also push for more action to stop the flow of ISIS’s millions around Africa and the Middle East.

By April this year, more than 6,000 jihadi fighters had flocked to Libya to escape coalition air strikes in Syria.

The group controlled a 200 square kilometres stretch of Libya’s Mediterranean coastline before the US-led assault on them began, which included teams from Britain’s elite Special Boat Service.

A pounding from the air and land over the last three months has seen ISIS now boxed into just one square kilometre in their bastion town of Sirte.