ISIS/ISWAP took responsibility for firing 3 Katyusha rockets at the Diffa Airfield in Niger
Sahel Mali: JNIM claims the last three attacks against international forces in Mali, (Operation Gossi against Barkhane, Operation in Meneka against the Tokuba Force and Operation Tarkint, which targeted a German unit of MINUSMA)
4 week agoISWAP's recent communiqué on the 06/26 attack also includes images of 2 arms (12.7) and packs of ammunition as earlier reported by @SembeTv . Items which however do not reflect a recovery made after the killing of 26 soldiers
Igboho escapes death as Soldiers attack home, 2 killed
A member of the Zamfara State House of Assembly representing Shinkafi constituency, Alhaji Mohammed G. Ahmed, has been reportedly killed by bandits, on Tuesday night. It was gathered that the gunmen, after killing the lawmaker, also abducted his son and the driver
1 month agoNigeria: A politician was killed while traveling between 2 cities in the north of the country. In addition, the escort of a senior official from one of the federal states was attacked in another armed incident in which 3 police officers were injured
1 month agoNigeria: ISWA posted images of an attack against the NA on the Kotembe-Bolungu road. Once again, this was carried out by ex-JAS fighters. Two NA can be seen dead (ofc didn't include), 1x T56, 1x AKM, 3x PG-7V plus magazines, expelling charges, kit and likely RPG offscreen
1 month ago"The African continent is undergoing severe security crisis" Portuguese Minister of National Defense João Gomes Cravinho tells @CSIS EUDefense Washington Forum "We're finding an enormous arc of instability & state disaggregation." from Sahel to Mauritania to Sudan
Solhan massacre: the TGI (anti-terrorism pole) announces the indictment of 2 men born in 1993, member of the Mouhadine group, affiliated with Al-Qaeda. During the investigations in Solhan, 318 Kalashnikov cases and 219 PKMS cases were discovered (press release)
Nigeria: At least three people killed when a tanker exploded in the village of Smoke in the Apa local government area in Benue state
1 month agoSaharandust is blowing Northward and Westward. Again. The big clouds have been detected by Copernicus Sentinel5p today, June 28, across Mediterranean, over Italy, Greece, SE Europe, and across the Atlantic Ocean
1 month ago"We are fearing the expansion & spread of Daesh in Africa" says Italy FM Luigi Di Maio, thru an interpreter, at meeting of the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS in Rome. Notes inclusion of BurkinaFaso Mozambique Ghana as observers
Two arms and a bunch of ammunition stolen from the Sandawadjiri MNJTF base as insurgents invaded the camp for a while after the attack. No casualties reported on the side of the militants. ISWAP is suspected to be behind this
1 month agoThe Malian Armed Forces are revising upwards the results of the simultaneous attack on 2 FAMa posts in Boni (Douentza circle, Mopti region, in central Mali) on June 25, 2021: 7 dead and several wounded
This is the first ISWAP video released by Daesh since February 2020, It is focusing on the aftermath of the Sambisa operation – Shekau's death isn't mentioned directly, but you see other important stuff like former JAS fighters repenting and pledging allegiance to Daesh's leader
Abduction of ex-Lawmaker, Kogi Prince, Hotel Guests in Abuja: Police lunch manhunt for gunmen
In an attack in Mali, 15 Bundeswehr soldiers who are part of the UN unit Minusma in the West African country were apparently injured. A car bomb was set off according to local reports
Macron: The European summit discussed the files of Libya, Ethiopia and security in the Sahel region
1 month agoThis morning, a temporary operational base of the MINUSMA Force near the village of Ichagara, in the commune of Tarkint, region of Gao in Mali was the target of an car bomb attack. 15 casualties were reported
Russians detained in Chad desert say they are tourists
Burkina - Attaque_Solhan - 2 suspects apprehended according to government spokesperson. Solhan's attack is the deadliest in the country's history. 132 people, according to the government and 160 according to local sources had been killed
Burkina - A suspected terrorist arrested in Boromo (Boucle du Mouhoun), government spokesman Ousséni Tamboura announced on Wednesday. The security services apprehended a suspect who was wanted in multiple cases
1 month agoNigeria: ISWAP released photos of their attack on NA in Maiduguri, Borno. Militants are armed with AKM(S)/Type 56(-1) pattern rifles, technical with a 12.7 HMG (likely W85) and RPG-7 + OG-7V pattern rocket. Also several vehicles including MRAP burned/captured and HMGs taken
1 month agoLast night, IS published a new statement from its spokesman Abu Hamza al-Qurashi in which, among other things, he lauded the recent exploits of ISWAP—IS's West Africa Province—in Nigeria, alluding to Abubakar Shekau's group, JAS, as "khawarij
1 month agoMali: a convoy of the Barkhane force targeted by a car bomb in Gossi in the center of Mali. VBIED explosion near a French patrol belonging to the Barkhane Force in the city of Gossi in the Tombouctou region
Gossi: Monday 06/21/2021 a vehicle bomb hit a patrol of Barkhane in Kaïgourou commune of Gossi, there are several seriously injured on Barkhane side
Mali: Barkhane force hit by car bomb, several injured
1 month ago2 French soldiers were wounded and a Nigerien soldier killed in an ISWAP ambush south of Ménaka against a patrol jointly led by France and Niger. More than 10 militants were subsequently killed by the French air force
Video released by BokoHaram confirms death of the leader of the Nigeria jihadist group, Abubakr Shekau. The man speaking in the 3-minute clip is Bakura Modu, (also known as Sahalaba) who now might be the organization's new leader
Mali Gao air supported security operations
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