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Researcher/ Focus on Africa https://open.substack.com/pub/hasretkargin?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=4mz338 Sub-Saharan Africa report every week.

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Burkina Faso : le Groupe de soutien à l’islam et aux musulmans revendique des attaques dans le nord et l’est du pays, faisant plus de 130 morts La branche sahélienne d’Al-Qaida a infligé de lourdes pertes à l’armée, tuant aussi des civils, dans un contexte où ses attaques s’intensifient ces dernières semaines.

I shared my assessment with AFP on the recent JNIM attacks in Burkina Faso.
www.lemonde.fr/afrique/arti...

01.03.2026 14:54 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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من المشرق إلى الساحل.. كيف يعيد داعش تموضعه في إفريقيا؟ في توقيت متزامن مع رسالة حديثة لتنظيم داعش دعا فيها عناصره إلى تصعيد القتال ضد الحكومة في سوريا، أطلق مسؤولون أمميون تحذيرات من تسارع تمدد التنظيم وفروعه في إفريقيا، ولا سيما في غرب القارة ومنطقة السا...

www.skynewsarabia.com/world/185450...
I spoke to Sky News Arabia about ISIS’s militant transfer and organizational expansion from the Middle East to Africa.

23.02.2026 09:23 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Burkina Faso : le Groupe de soutien à l’islam et aux musulmans revendique des attaques dans le nord et l’est du pays, faisant plus de 130 morts La branche sahélienne d’Al-Qaida a infligé de lourdes pertes à l’armée, tuant aussi des civils, dans un contexte où ses attaques s’intensifient ces dernières semaines.

I shared my assessment with AFP on the recent JNIM attacks in Burkina Faso.
www.lemonde.fr/afrique/arti...

01.03.2026 14:54 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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من المشرق إلى الساحل.. كيف يعيد داعش تموضعه في إفريقيا؟ في توقيت متزامن مع رسالة حديثة لتنظيم داعش دعا فيها عناصره إلى تصعيد القتال ضد الحكومة في سوريا، أطلق مسؤولون أمميون تحذيرات من تسارع تمدد التنظيم وفروعه في إفريقيا، ولا سيما في غرب القارة ومنطقة السا...

www.skynewsarabia.com/world/185450...
I spoke to Sky News Arabia about ISIS’s militant transfer and organizational expansion from the Middle East to Africa.

23.02.2026 09:23 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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#BurkinaFaso
Video of #Jnım attack in Bilanga. Additionally, in another video seen that , militants execute two soldiers and military vehicles destroyed.

13.02.2026 11:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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#Mali
Footage of #Jnım attack today on a fuel tanker convoy between Kayes and Diboli. Seen that dozens of tankers were burned.

29.01.2026 20:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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#Jnım released an infographic of alleged attacks during the month of Rajab (December-January)
59+ Raids,
11+ Ambushes,
22+ IEDs,
86 were killed,
A large number of various vehicles, motorcycles, ammunition were seized

20.01.2026 18:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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#Mali
#Jnım released photos of the graduation of militants at the Yahya Abu al-Hammam camp in Timbuktu (an AQIM leader killed by French forces in 2019).”

18.01.2026 10:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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#Mali
#Jnım released photos of the Commander Julaybib camp in Tombouctou.

14.01.2026 14:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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#BurkinaFaso
#Jnım captured Lankoue town. Soldiers and civilians are seen withdrew the town.

08.01.2026 21:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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#Mali
#Jnım released photos from a meeting in Timbuktu attended by fighters, scholars and tribal elders. Those in the photos appear to be Tuareg and Houssein Ghoulam (who defected from the FLA to JNIM) is also seen among them.

07.01.2026 11:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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#Mali
#Jnım released photos of the Abu Issa al-Ansari camp.

06.01.2026 13:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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#Mali
Local sources reportedly, #Jnım attacked the mining site in Denso village Guinea border yesterday.The army repelled the attack but militants set fire to and destroyed a large amount of equipment at the site. Later that same night they also attacked and burned government facilities in Filamana.

04.01.2026 09:39 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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#Jnım released an infographic of alleged attacks during the month of Jumada Al-Akhirah (November-December)
38+ Raids,
5+ Ambushes,
16+ IEDs,
60 were killed,
A large number of various vehicles, motorcycles, ammunition were seized.

27.12.2025 20:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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#Mali
#Jnım claims to have Officer Ahmed Touré and his two bodyguards were arrested on the outskirts of the capital, Bamako.
An officer and his bodyguards near #Bamako...

27.12.2025 18:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Weekly Sub-Saharan #Africa Security Situation and Key Developments ( December 12-19, 19-26)

Accessible via the link 👇👇

open.substack.com/pub/hasretka...

#Somalia 🇸🇴
Democratic Republic of Congo #Drc 🇨🇩
#Mali 🇲🇱
#BurkinaFaso 🇧🇫
#Niger 🇳🇪

26.12.2025 13:18 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Weekly Sub-Saharan #Africa Security Situation and Key Developments ( December 12-19, 19-26)

Accessible via the link 👇👇

open.substack.com/pub/hasretka...

#Somalia 🇸🇴
Democratic Republic of Congo #Drc 🇨🇩
#Mali 🇲🇱
#BurkinaFaso 🇧🇫
#Niger 🇳🇪

26.12.2025 13:18 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Haftalık Sahra Altı #Afrika Güvenlik Durumu ve Önemli Gelişmeler (12-19, 19-26 Aralık)

Linkten ulaşılabilir 👇

open.substack.com/pub/hasretka...

#Somali 🇸🇴
Demokratik Kongo Cumhuriyeti #Drc 🇨🇩
#Mali 🇲🇱
#BurkinaFaso 🇧🇫
#Niger 🇳🇪

26.12.2025 13:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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#BurkinaFaso
#Jnım released video from the Abu Adam camp

20.12.2025 09:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Sahel Monitoring September 2025 This is the fifth installment in a new series analysing the threat environment in the Sahel based on the propaganda output by Jama'a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (JNIM), the Islamic State–West Afric...

Our new report.
Sahel Monitoring September 2025
Co-authored with @p-vanostaeyen.bsky.social
@brantphilip.bsky.social and Brenno Fedi Fineschi
www.counterextremism.com/blog/sahel-m...

15.12.2025 19:20 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Weekly Sub-Saharan #Africa Security Situation and Key Developments (November 28 -December 5 , December 5-12)

Accessible via the link 👇

open.substack.com/pub/hasretka...

Democratic Republic of the Congo #Drc 🇨🇩
#Mali 🇲🇱
#Benin 🇧🇯
#Somalia 🇸🇴
#BurkinaFaso 🇧🇫

12.12.2025 13:37 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Weekly Sub-Saharan #Africa Security Situation and Key Developments (November 28 -December 5 , December 5-12)

Accessible via the link 👇

open.substack.com/pub/hasretka...

Democratic Republic of the Congo #Drc 🇨🇩
#Mali 🇲🇱
#Benin 🇧🇯
#Somalia 🇸🇴
#BurkinaFaso 🇧🇫

12.12.2025 13:37 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Haftalık Sahra Altı #Afrika Güvenlik Durumu ve Önemli Gelişmeler ( 28 Kasım - 5 Aralık, 5 - 12 Aralık)

Linkten ulaşılabilir 👇

open.substack.com/pub/hasretka...

Demokratik Kongo Cumhuriyeti #Drc 🇨🇩
#Mali 🇲🇱
#Benin 🇧🇯
#Somali 🇸🇴
#BurkinaFaso 🇧🇫

12.12.2025 13:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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#Mali
#Jnım burned several fuel tankers between Keleya and Bougouni.

10.12.2025 17:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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#Somalia
The Tanzanian terrorist captured by #Puntland forces in today’s operation.

09.12.2025 21:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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#Mali
Fuel tankers burned in the #Jnım ambush in Bougouni today

06.12.2025 21:33 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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#BurkinaFaso
#Jnım released video from the training camp in country.

05.12.2025 09:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Weekend of Horror: Terrorists use drones, arms to monitor, kidnap, kill in four Nigerian states As bandits deploy a drone in Kogi, attacks continue in many northern states.

#Nigeria
Claimed bandits used a surveillance drone before attacking a church in Ejiba village in the Yagba West area of Kogi State. Bıg ıf, because no other sources mention the use of a drone. Besides kidnapped pastor his wife and those with them were rescued.
www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlin...

04.12.2025 17:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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#Mali
A fuel tanker convoy arrived in #Mopti amid people celebrations. The city had been receiving only shortly periods of electricity for two months.

03.12.2025 23:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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#BurkinaFaso
Local sources reportedly, #Jnım attacked the village of Tiantiaka in the Tibga commune, killing 10 civilians and burning many homes and shops.

03.12.2025 20:18 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0