Until his death, Hamaha was the former spokesman of the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO), originally a splinter group of AQIM. In the video, AQIM referred to Hamaha as a “martyr.” ...

the head of al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb’s operations in the Sahel region of North Africa. Conflicting reports have emerged over the recent claim by Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno that top al ...

featuring remarks from CSIS Africa Program Director Jennifer Cooke and project adviser and former AFRICOM Commander General Carter Ham. Topics of discussion include: Boko Haram in Nigeria; AQIM in ...

MUJAO split from AQIM in October 2011, following accusations that AQIM was ... forth from the Sahara in the medieval period and eventually conquered much of north Africa and Spain. MUJAO split in 2015 ...

West Africa also has its fair share of security threats. They exist mainly in form of Islamic terrorists such as Boko Haram, Ansaru, Al Qaeda in the Maghrib, AQIM, and quasi-Janjaweed groups such as ...

Until 2009, AQIM had reached deals to release all of its ... the first documentary evidence of democracy being practiced in Africa, a letter from an emissary to the sheikh of Masina.

[5] The three West African organizations, which unified to create JNIM were all al-Qaeda affiliates: Ansar al-Din; al-Murabitoon; and al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb’s (AQIM) Sahara branch. JNIM also ...

The Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, under the leadership of Nigeria’s President, Bola Tinubu, is moving ...