The Fighting Between IS and JNIM in Northern Burkina Faso Has Escalated to a Scale Far Beyond Earlier Clashes
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Since August, major fighting has pitted the jihadists of JNIM, linked to al-Qaeda, against their rivals from the Islamic State in the Sahel (IS). These clashes are taking place on the border between Mali and Burkina Faso, not far from the Niger border. The latest fighting occurred at the end of last week, primarily on Friday, October 9, in Gonadaouri, in Burkina Faso's Oudalan province. It is reported that several hundred people were killed. At …
The two rival terrorist groups are clashing on the border of Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger, while simultaneously expanding their territory. Since the beginning of October, these battles have reached an unprecedented level of violence, with hundreds of deaths claimed. For several weeks, clashes of unprecedented scale have pitted the Sahelian branches of the jihadists Islamic State (IS) and al-Qaeda (JNIM) against each other in the border area str…
On 10 October, bloody fighting between the jnim and the Islamic State in Burkina Faso took place. A new episode in the rivalry between the two jihadist groups, against the background of the will to expand and control financing, which is now threatening to spill over beyond the Sahel.
The rivalry between the two jihadist groups to control the Sahel is permanent, in search of "comfort zones"
If the communication war rages between the two jihadist franchises on the record of the large-scale fighting in recent days in northern Burkina Faso, they attest, in any case, to an unprecedented level of violence between the two groups in the Sahel since the outbreak of their rivalry in 2019. [...] This article Military victory of the Islamic State over its rivals of Al-Qaeda in Burkina Faso appeared first on Mondafrique.
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