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Who is Colonel Hussein Ghoulam, the leader of the bloody Sombi attack in the Timbuktu region?
2025-12-17

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Who is Colonel Hussein Ghoulam, the leader of the bloody Sombi attack in the Timbuktu region?

- A former officer with the rank of "colonel" in the Malian National Guard, who later turned to armed operations against Mali.

- Joined in 2012 the "Arab Movement for Azawad"
…secular liberation movement for the Tuareg Arabs in the Azawad region in Northern Mali since 2012…
(Permanent Strategic Framework), and rose through the ranks to become the movement's chief of staff and commander of the eastern Timbuktu sector.

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