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2020-12-27 Africa North

Mali army says dozen alleged jihadists killed in attack

[AlAhram] The Malian army said Saturday it killed around a dozen alleged jihadists when a military convoy was attacked near the border with Burkina Faso
...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other...
The attack occurred on Thursday afternoon between Dinangourou and Mondoro, the army said on Twitter.

"On the enemy's side, around a dozen bad boyz were potted," but the army suffered no losses, it said.

From 2015, violence on civilians moved to the volatile centre of the country, starting with the Fulani
... a peculiarly brutal tribe of Moslem herdsmen infesting Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and probably other places that are light on law and order and heavy on tribal identity...
community, which had become associated with the jihadists after a firebrand
...firebrands are noted more for audio volume and the quantity of spittle generated than for any actual logic in their arguments...
Fulani preacher named Amadou Koufa

...Imperator of the Macina Liberation Front, one of the local groups within Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam wal-Moslemin (JNIM), the regional umbrella affiliated with Al Qaeda in North Africa. MLF draws from the cattle-herding Fulani tribe extant in Mali, Niger, and Nigeria, which appeared in 2015 for the purpose of jihading against the farming tribes of Dogon and Bambara. Amadou was reported killed in a French raid, but he arose from the dead sometime around January 2019, to continue jihading as usual...
set up an gang.

Last week, an exhaustive report into strife-torn Mali by UN Sherlocks said they had garnered evidence of war crimes committed by the security forces and others, and of crimes against humanity by jihadists and other gangs.

The 338-page investigation by the International Commission of Inquiry for Mali covers six years, from 2012 to 2018.

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