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| JNIM militants firing at a damaged Malian Army vehicle destroyed by an IED between Ke-Macina and Markala in central Mali | |
| 2026-02-11 | |
Text: 🇲🇱 #Mali: Footage shows JNIM militants firing at a damaged Malian Army vehicle after it was destroyed by an IED between Ke-Macina and Markala in central Mali. These kinds of attacks come as the group faces a turning point in its structure: JNIM leader Saa’d pledged allegiance to Islamic State in Sahel and defected. He was responsible for an area in eastern Burkina Faso and reportedly joined IS with a number of his men, marking one of the largest mass defections from JNIM to IS-Sahel in years.
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