“This is another huge success in our fight against terrorist groups in the Sahel,” said French President Emanuel Macron in a statement. Twitter. The Sahel region is a strip of country in sub-Saharan Africa.
Islamic State The Sahrawi branch is blamed for most of the jihadist terrorist attacks on both soldiers and civilians in Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso.
A. as Sahravi once was Al Qaeda In the Organization of the Islamic Maghreb, he was also one of the leaders of the Mali Islamist group Mujao, which was responsible for the abduction of Spanish aid workers in Algeria and the abduction of Algerian diplomats in Mali in 2012.
The United States had announced a $ 5 million reward for information identifying his whereabouts. He was in search of US authorities for the 2017 attack in Niger, which killed four US Special Forces soldiers, as well as their local companions and drivers. On 9 August 2020, he personally ordered the killing of six aid workers from France.
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