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Feb
11
2021
By The African Mirror
20 U.N. peacekeepers injured in Mali

20 U.N. peacekeepers injured in Mali

NEWS
TWENTY United Nations peacekeepers were injured, including several seriously, in central Mali yesterday when their base came under fire, a U.N. mission spokesman said. The base near the town of Douentza was attacked, a spokesman for the MINUSMA mission, Olivier Salgado, told Reuters. He did not say who was responsible. Islamist militant groups linked to al Qaeda and Islamic States regularly attack U.N. peacekeepers and Malian soldiers in the area. "The MINUSMA chief firmly condemns the attack and has ordered that all measures be taken to treat the wounded," Salgado said. Deployed since 2013, the U.N. currently has over 14,000…
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Feb
06
2021
By The African Mirror
Burkina Faso government says it is open to talks with jihadists

Burkina Faso government says it is open to talks with jihadists

NEWS
BURKINA Faso's government said for the first time yesterday that it was open to talks with Islamist militants to try to end a growing insurgency, echoing a position taken by authorities in neighbouring Mali. Nearly a decade after militants linked to al Qaeda briefly seized control of northern Mali, governments across West Africa's Sahel region again find themselves struggling to contain the jihadists, leading some to reconsider prior opposition to talks. "If we want to end the security crisis, we will need to find paths and ways to talk with those responsible for terrorist attacks so that we are in…
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Feb
04
2021
By The African Mirror
Gunmen kill 9 soldiers in Mali

Gunmen kill 9 soldiers in Mali

NEWS
ARMED assailants killed nine soldiers and wounded six others in an ambush in central Mali, an army spokesman has announced. The attack occurred near the village of Boni in the Mopti region, a hot spot of recent violence, Colonel Soulemane Dembele told Reuters. Central and northern Mali is overrun by jihadist groups linked to al Qaeda and Islamic State that regularly attack the army, civilians and United Nations peacekeepers. They use the area as a base from which to carry out attacks across the Sahel region south of the Sahara Desert. It was not clear which group carried out Wednesday's…
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Jan
15
2021
By The African Mirror
Four U.N. peacekeepers killed in Mmali

Four U.N. peacekeepers killed in Mmali

NEWS
FOUR United Nations peacekeepers were killed and five wounded in central Mali after a convoy struck an explosive device and came under fire, the U.N. said. It was not clear who carried out the attack about 20 km (12 miles) north of the town of Bambara-Maoudé in the Timbuktu region. Islamist groups linked to al Qaeda and Islamic State operate in the region and have made much of the West African country ungovernable. The U.N. mission in Mali, known as MINUSMA, said in a statement on Wednesday that three peacekeepers had been killed and six wounded in the attack. A…
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Jan
06
2021
By The African Mirror
Niger mourns, probes weekend massacre in two villages

Niger mourns, probes weekend massacre in two villages

NEWS
NIGER has declared three days of national mourning following the massacre of 100 civilians in two villages in the western region of the country where Islamist militants have carried out a series of attacks. The government said an investigation had been launched to find the perpetrators. Witnesses have said that over a hundred armed assailants on motorbikes surrounded the villages and started firing indiscriminately on Saturday. The government said reinforcements had been sent to the area near the tri-border region of Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali known as Liptako-Gourma, where local authorities have been overrun by militants linked to al…
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Jan
06
2021
By The African Mirror
Al Qaeda branch claims responsibility for killing two French soldiers in Mali

Al Qaeda branch claims responsibility for killing two French soldiers in Mali

NEWS
AL QAEDA’S branch in North Africa has claimed responsibility for killing two French soldiers who died when their armoured vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device in eastern Mali, Site Intelligence Group has reported. The soldiers were on a reconnaissance and intelligence-gathering mission in the eastern region of Menaka when the blast occurred. The group, known as Jama'a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin or JNIM, condemned the "indiscriminate" killing of 100 civilians in western Niger over the weekend, SITE Intel said.
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Dec
21
2020
By The African Mirror
Tunisia militants behead shepherd near Algeria border

Tunisia militants behead shepherd near Algeria border

NEWS
ISLAMIST militants kidnapped and beheaded a young shepherd in mountains in Tunisia near the border with Algeria, security sources and residents said. Troops found the body of Okba Dhouibi after he had been seized by militants, the sources said. Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi said that the act would not go unpunished. Tunisian forces are carrying out operations in the Kasserine and Saloum mountain range to flush out Ajned Kilafha militants allied to Islamic State. Militants linked to Al Qaeda and IS groups have been sheltering for years in the desolate, hilly terrain along a stretch of the border with Algeria…
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Nov
23
2020
By The African Mirror
Al Qaeda in North Africa names new leader to succeed Droukdel

Al Qaeda in North Africa names new leader to succeed Droukdel

NEWS
AL QAEDA’S North Africa branch (AQIM) has appointed a new leader and confirmed the death of its former leader Abdelmalek Droukdel who was killed by the French army in June, according to SITE Intelligence Group. U.S.-based SITE, which monitors jihadist websites, said AQIM displayed the dead body of its former leader for the first time in a video. Abdelmalek Droukdel. Picture: Flickr The French army killed Droukdel in Mali after hunting him for more than seven years in the Sahel region. AQIM said that following Droukdel's death, another Algerian, Sheikh Mujahid Yazid Mubarak, also known as Abu Ubaida Yusuf al-Annabi,…
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Nov
14
2020
By The African Mirror
France says it has killed senior al-Qaeda North Africa operative in Mali

France says it has killed senior al-Qaeda North Africa operative in Mali

NEWS
FRENCH forces have killed Bah ag Moussa, a military leader of al Qaeda's North Africa wing, during an operation in northeastern Mali, Armed Forces Minister Florence Parly has announced. The former Malian army colonel, also known as Bamoussa Diarra, was a right-hand man of Iyad Ag Ghali, the leader of Mali's most prominent jihadi group, Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM), which has repeatedly attacked soldiers and civilians in Mali and neighbouring Burkina Faso. "A historic figure of the jihadist movement in the Sahel, Bah ag Moussa is considered responsible for several attacks against Malian and international forces", Parly said in…
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Oct
27
2020
By The African Mirror
Mali and France at odds over talks with Islamist militants

Mali and France at odds over talks with Islamist militants

NEWS
MALI’S interim prime minister is open to talks with Islamist militants whose insurgency has made vast swathes of the country ungovernable, but former colonial power France signalled opposition to the idea. Ousted former President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita said earlier this year that his government was prepared to negotiate with al Qaeda-linked militants. National talks in the aftermath of the August coup that overthrew Keita endorsed that policy. Moctar Ouane Malian officials have provided few specifics about what kinds of compromises could emerge, but some proponents of negotiations have said they could include recognition of a greater role for Islam in…
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