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Mali: Serious ramifications of the Tazalite attack in the North
Convoy of HCUA and MAA (separatist) fighters On Thursday October 6, unidentified gunmen carried out an attack targeting security forces at the Tazalite refugee camp in the Tahoua Region, Niger. As...
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Mali: Suicide attack targeted Swedish peacekeepers in Timbuktu
Approximate location of the attack On the evening of October 10, around 20h00 local time, a suicide bomber targeted a Swedish MINUSMA patrol in the town of Timbuktu. While the patrol were conducting a...
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MENASTREAM – Sahel Report for October 2016
Security-related incidents and key developments October has been a violent month in northern and central Mali on a similar level as previous month, although there was a notable increase in more complex...
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Mali: New video release by AQIM’s Al-Andalus Media –‘Traitors 2’
AQIM’s Al-Andalus Media released a 22m31sec high quality video focusing on spies, or as described ‘traitors’, locals providing intelligence to French (Barkhane)-, Malian-, Mauritanian- and MINUSMA...
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Mali: Presumed AQIM commander of Grand-Bassam attack arrested near Gossi
“Mastermind” of Grand-Bassam shootings On January 11, RFI reported that one of the commanders who directed the Grand-Bassam attack in Ivory Coast on March 13, 2016 had been arrested near Gossi, in the...
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Mali: New Fulani armed group in the making
Three recently published videos announced the formation of a new Fulani armed group active in the areas of Ansongo, Fafa and Haïre. The group is described as non-jihadist and non-separatist, thus...
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Burkina Faso: Ansaroul Islam pledging allegiance to the Islamic State? Maybe...
On Thursday April 13, 2017, a pro-AQIM account on telegram and a pro-ISIS account on twitter respectively reported that a Burkinabe jihadist group possibly would pledge allegiance (bay’ah) to the...
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Jihadist Groups In The Sahel Region Formalize Merger
Leading figures gathered for the announcement of the merger into Jama’at Nusrat ul-Islam wal-Muslimin (screen capture from the video released by al-Zaleqa Foundation for Media Productions) By Héni...
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Burkina Faso: Ansaroul Islam prêtera-t-il allégeance à l’État islamique?
Un compte télégramme proche du groupe AQMI et un compte twitter proche de l’État islamique ont rapporté le 13 avril, qu’un groupe jihadiste burkinabè pourrait prêter allégeance (bay’ah) au soi-disant...
View ArticleMali: Multipronged attack on Malian army base in Almoustarat
Early on Sunday morning, an attack by unknown gunmen targeted a Malian army position in Almoustarat, located in the Tilemsi Valley, Gao Region, about 150km north of the regional capital Gao. The...
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Mali: Malian soldiers held in captivity by JNIM appeal for their release
In a previously unpublished “proof of life” video named “Appeal of the detainees”, dated October 1, 2017 by Al-Zallaqa, the media wing of Jama’ah Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) – Malian soldiers...
View ArticleVideo: Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS) shows off booty taken from...
A recently published video shows militants of the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS) displaying technicals belonging to the Tuareg Imghad and Allies Self-defence Group (GATIA), seized following...
View ArticleAttacks claimed by the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS)
Since its founding in May 2015, the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS) has neither created any media wing nor has the Islamic State (Central) media office issued any statements or reports via...
View ArticleVideo: Another video released by Katiba Salaheddine (ISGS) –”Response to...
Katiba Salaheddine’s second video was released on June 24, entitled ”Response to Aggression by MSA and GATIA”. The group’s first video was published the day before, showcasing two GATIA technicals...
View ArticleMali: “The old man of the mountain”
Timely, two days ahead of Mali’s presidential elections, the emir of Jama’ah Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM), Iyad Ag Ghaly made his first appearance since the announcement of the merger in March...
View ArticleLibya: Tunisian AQIM commander killed in Ubari airstrike
In the evening of July 25, an unknown aircraft conducted an airstrike that struck a vehicle in front of a house in the Al-Sharib district of Ubari. An area mainly inhabited by Libyan and Malian Tuareg....
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Mali: Al-Mourabitoun commander and associates killed amidst Barkhane...
On July 29, French forces of Operation Barkhane conducted a military operation in the Tilemsi Valley, specifically in the area of Ersane near Tabankort, Gao Region. The operation was initiated by an...
View ArticleMali: French forces killed ISGS commander involved in Tongo Tongo ambush
Early on the morning of August 26, French forces of operation Barkhane conducted a combined air-ground operation between Infoukaretane and Labouta, about 30km south of Ménaka. Two Mirage 2000 fighter...
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Exclusive: End of the run for Tunisian Ansar al-Sharia founder Abu Iyadh...
Seifallah Ben Hassine, commonly known as Abu Iyadh al-Tunisi—one of North Africa’s most influential jihadi ideologues—is confirmed to have been killed on February 21, in northern Mali. A senior...
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Mali: Complex attack against French forces in Menaka
ISGS militants aboard motorbikes in the Mali-Niger borderlands Around 1300 local time on Sunday afternoon, an attempted complex attack targeted French forces in the area of Akabar, Menaka Region, not...
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