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Terror Group JNIM Uses Violence, Negotiation to Position Itself as Political Force in Sahel

Summary by Malay Mail
ABIDJAN, July 5 — In Africa’s turbulent Sahel region, the Al-Qaeda-linked JNIM jihadist group is expanding its influence by repeated massacres, food distribution and signing pacts with local authorities to position itself as a key political player. The Group for the Support of Islam and Muslims (JNIM) has not ruled out governing states and has condemned bloody attacks allegedly carried out by mercenaries from the private Russian company Wagner a…

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In the Sahel African region, a sympathetic group of Al-Qaeda is becoming more and more capable of attacking. It is moving mainly in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, countries that have, in recent years, accounted for State attacks. Because of being less extreme and making an effort to reach the populations, it is more successful than the self-proclaimed Islamic State (Daesh). After the release of the United Nations, of the French and North American…

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Global Upfront Newspapers broke the news in on Friday, July 4, 2025.
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