Residents of the Soubdou area in Niger Republic have reportedly apprehended an Islamic cleric accused of preaching in support of jihadist insurgents before handing him over to the country’s security forces. According to accounts circulating on social media, members of the community arrested the imam after alleging that he had been delivering sermons sympathetic to militants affiliated with the Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM), an extr…
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