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.” ...

Evidence is displayed during a hearing in Tunis for suspected members of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. (Zoubeir Souissi/Reuters) Algerian and Western counterterrorism efforts, along with an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A militant leader from Mali championed a rock band and helped write a hit song before leading an Islamist army that killed ...

[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 group quickly emerged around a core of Ifoghas Tuareg and longtime companions of Ag Ghali, eventually picking up support from al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). It quickly emerged as an ...