#alqaeda — Public Fediverse posts
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Red Fort 2025 blast: UN report points to Al-Qaeda after earlier JeM link https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/india/un-attributes-2025-red-fort-blast-to-aqis-delhi-cjeza6d9?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #RedFortBlast #DelhiBlast #AQIS #AlQaeda #UN
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Our full 2026 control map report for #Somalia is still a ways out, but subscribers can now see an April 15 version of the map:
https://www.polgeonow.com/2026/07/somalia-civil-war-map-2026.html
What do you want to know about territorial control in Somalia?
#HornOfAfrica #conflicttracking #conflictmapping #map #mapping #cartography #Somaliland #Khaatumo #Puntland #AlShabaab #AlQaeda #geopolitics #maps #Africa #geography #ISIS #ISIL #security #refugees #humanitarian #GulfOfAden @geography @geopolitics @cartography
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Our full 2026 control map report for #Somalia is still a ways out, but subscribers can now see an April 15 version of the map:
https://www.polgeonow.com/2026/07/somalia-civil-war-map-2026.html
What do you want to know about territorial control in Somalia?
#HornOfAfrica #conflicttracking #conflictmapping #map #mapping #cartography #Somaliland #Khaatumo #Puntland #AlShabaab #AlQaeda #geopolitics #maps #Africa #geography #ISIS #ISIL #security #refugees #humanitarian #GulfOfAden @geography @geopolitics @cartography
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Murió por disparos efectuados durante la operación.
También fallecieron uno de sus hijos, Khalid, un mensajero de confianza, el hermano de este y una de las esposas del mensajero.
Amal al-Sadah, la esposa más joven de Bin Laden, resultó herida en una pierna.
¿Qué ocurrió con el cuerpo?
Tras abandonar Abbottabad, el cuerpo fue trasladado al portaaviones estadounidense USS Carl Vinson.
Allí se realizaron fotografías, mediciones antropométricas y pruebas rápidas de ADN comparándolas con muestras de familiares.
Una vez confirmada la identidad, el cadáver fue preparado siguiendo, según Estados Unidos, determinados ritos islámicos básicos antes de ser introducido en una bolsa lastrada y arrojado al mar Arábigo en menos de veinticuatro horas.
La administración Obama explicó que tomó esa decisión para evitar que una tumba pudiera convertirse en lugar de peregrinación para simpatizantes extremistas.
La medida fue criticada por algunos sectores y defendida por otros, pero desde entonces no existe ningún lugar físico donde pueda rendírsele homenaje.
Lo que encontraron dentro del complejo
La operación permitió incautar el mayor archivo de documentos internos de Al Qaeda jamás obtenido.
Se recuperaron más de 470.000 archivos, entre ellos cartas manuscritas, discos duros, memorias USB, vídeos y ordenadores.
Gracias a esos documentos se supo que, pese a permanecer oculto, Bin Laden seguía dirigiendo parte de la estrategia de Al Qaeda mediante mensajeros.
También se descubrió que la organización estaba mucho más debilitada de lo que muchos imaginaban y que Bin Laden estaba preocupado por la pérdida de apoyo entre parte del mundo musulmán debido a las numerosas víctimas civiles causadas por los atentados.
Los documentos y testimonios familiares también mostraron una realidad mucho más compleja que la imagen pública que proyectaba.
Su familia vivía sometida a normas extremadamente estrictas.
Diversos testimonios de algunos de sus hijos y de sus esposas describen una disciplina férrea, largas temporadas de aislamiento y un control constante sobre la vida cotidiana.
Sin embargo, conviene ser prudentes con algunas historias muy difundidas.
Se ha afirmado, por ejemplo, que en los ordenadores del complejo aparecieron películas de Disney, videojuegos o vídeos de internet.
Es cierto que durante el análisis del material incautado se localizaron archivos de ese tipo, pero no puede asegurarse que fueran utilizados personalmente por Bin Laden, ya que en la vivienda residían varias familias y numerosos niños.También han circulado relatos sobre coches de lujo, castigos familiares o determinadas manías domésticas.
Algunas proceden de testimonios directos de familiares; otras nunca han podido verificarse plenamente.
Los historiadores suelen diferenciarlas de los hechos documentados.Un dato especialmente llamativo sí quedó confirmado.
Entre los documentos apareció un testamento redactado años antes en el que pedía expresamente a varios de sus hijos que no siguieran su camino dentro de Al Qaeda y que intentaran construir una vida alejada del terrorismo.
Resulta una contradicción evidente si se compara con los mensajes públicos en los que animaba a otros jóvenes a unirse a la organización.
¿Qué pasó con sus esposas?
Tras la operación, las autoridades pakistaníes detuvieron a las tres esposas que se encontraban en la vivienda: Khairiah Sabar, Siham Sabar y Amal Ahmed al-Sadah, junto con varios hijos y nietos.
Fueron trasladados a una residencia vigilada en Islamabad, donde permanecieron durante meses mientras eran interrogados por los servicios de inteligencia pakistaníes.
Estados Unidos tuvo un acceso muy limitado a ellas.En abril de 2012, un tribunal pakistaní las declaró culpables de residir ilegalmente en el país.
La condena fue de 45 días de prisión, tiempo que prácticamente ya habían cumplido durante su detención.El 26 de abril de 2012 fueron deportadas.
Las dos viudas saudíes regresaron a Arabia Saudita junto con varios de sus hijos.
Amal al-Sadah, de nacionalidad yemení, también salió de Pakistán con el grupo por razones humanitarias.
A partir de ese momento, todas desaparecieron prácticamente de la vida pública y desde entonces se sabe muy poco de ellas.La muerte de Osama bin Laden no supuso el final de Al Qaeda, aunque sí debilitó enormemente a la organización.
Con el paso de los años surgieron otros grupos yihadistas aún más violentos, como el autodenominado Estado Islámico (ISIS), que incluso llegó a disputar el liderazgo del terrorismo yihadista internacional.
Más de una década después de su muerte, Bin Laden sigue siendo una figura estudiada por historiadores, analistas y expertos en seguridad, no por admiración, sino porque comprender cómo un hombre criado entre privilegios terminó liderando una de las organizaciones terroristas más letales de la historia ayuda a entender uno de los capítulos más oscuros del siglo XXI.
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#historia #osamabinladen #alqaeda #11s #afganistán #operaciónneptunespear
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The #Trump admin is weighing #military action in the West African country of #Mali to target an #alQaeda affiliated group known as #JNIM, said current & former #US officials familiar with the deliberations.
If approved, it would add an 8th nation to the list of countries where Trump has ordered strikes since the start of his second term — a…presidency that he initially said would be dedicated to ending global strife & redirecting US resources to Americans.
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The #Trump admin is weighing #military action in the West African country of #Mali to target an #alQaeda affiliated group known as #JNIM, said current & former #US officials familiar with the deliberations.
If approved, it would add an 8th nation to the list of countries where Trump has ordered strikes since the start of his second term — a…presidency that he initially said would be dedicated to ending global strife & redirecting US resources to Americans.
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Armed groups attack Malian military convoy in Gao region | Conflict News
Mali says counterattack under way as rebels claim they inflicted ‘human losses’ and ‘material damage’ on troops. Published…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #Africa #alqaeda #Algeria #armedgroups #Conflict #Europe #Humanitariancrises #Libya #Mali #Mauritania #MiddleEast #Military #Russia #World
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From a Danish biker gang to the inner circles of al-Qaeda to working for Western intelligence. Morten Storm lived more lives than most people can imagine.
#MortenStorm #alQaeda #TrueSpyStory #books #bookreviews
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From a Danish biker gang to the inner circles of al-Qaeda to working for Western intelligence. Morten Storm lived more lives than most people can imagine.
#MortenStorm #alQaeda #TrueSpyStory #books #bookreviews
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Storm met Anwar al-Awlaki face to face. No other Western spy got that close. That fact alone makes this book rare.
#books #bookreview #alqaeda #nonfiction
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Storm met Anwar al-Awlaki face to face. No other Western spy got that close. That fact alone makes this book rare.
#books #bookreview #alqaeda #nonfiction
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EUA x Brasil: a intervenção subterrânea
Reportagem sobre um cerco. Enquanto finge afagar Lula, Trump conspira com Milei e Bukele, contra Brasil e México. Argentina e Paraguai abrem Cone Sul ao exército dos EUA. Highset, chefe do Pentágono, anuncia “caçada”. O que virá, até as eleições?https://outraspalavras.net/geopoliticaeguerra/eua-x-brasil-a-intervencao-subterranea/
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“Ukraine’s secret Al-Qaeda invasion of Africa”
by Kit Klarenberg in Al Mayadeen English
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@AlJazeera“Ukraine, backed by Western intelligence networks, has expanded covert operations into the Sahel, supporting anti-government and extremist-linked forces in Mali as part of a broader campaign against Russian and Chinese influence in Africa”
https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/analysis/ukraine-s-secret-al-qaeda-invasion-of-africa
#Press #SocialMedia #Ukraine #AlQaeda #Africa #CovertActions #Russia #China #Mali #France #Tuareg #RegimeChange #CIA #MI6 #AES #Niger #BourkinaFaso #FrenchForeignLegion #Francophone #Sahel
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“Ukraine’s secret Al-Qaeda invasion of Africa”
by Kit Klarenberg in Al Mayadeen English
@[email protected]
@[email protected]
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@iran
@BBC5Live
@BBCRadio4
@BBCNews
@AlJazeera“Ukraine, backed by Western intelligence networks, has expanded covert operations into the Sahel, supporting anti-government and extremist-linked forces in Mali as part of a broader campaign against Russian and Chinese influence in Africa”
https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/analysis/ukraine-s-secret-al-qaeda-invasion-of-africa
#Press #SocialMedia #Ukraine #AlQaeda #Africa #CovertActions #Russia #China #Mali #France #Tuareg #RegimeChange #CIA #MI6 #AES #Niger #BourkinaFaso #FrenchForeignLegion #Francophone #Sahel
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A troubled Danish kid. A library book about the Prophet. A decade inside al-Qaeda. Then a bacon sandwich sealed his deal with British intelligence.
#AgentStorm #alQaeda #SpyMemoir #books #bookreviews
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A troubled Danish kid. A library book about the Prophet. A decade inside al-Qaeda. Then a bacon sandwich sealed his deal with British intelligence.
#AgentStorm #alQaeda #SpyMemoir #books #bookreviews
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What happens when a spy gets too close to the world's most wanted cleric? Storm found out the hard way.
#books #bookreview #alqaeda #truestory
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What happens when a spy gets too close to the world's most wanted cleric? Storm found out the hard way.
#books #bookreview #alqaeda #truestory
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Al-Qaeda-linked ABT ‘tests Indian waters’ online, agencies on high alert https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/world/indian-agencies-monitor-al-qaeda-affiliate-abt-online-recruitment-india-vyfldboj?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #AlQaeda #ABT #IndiaNews #NationalSecurity #Intelligence
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‘Al-Qaeda-backed’ suicide attack threat targeting Suvendu Adhikari triggers massive police investigation. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/crime/kolkata-youth-arrested-suvendu-adhikari-bomb-threat-jykcsf0z?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #SuvenduAdhikari #Kolkata #WestBengal #AlQaeda #BreakingNews
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@aei senior fellow @mrubin1971 says #Somaliland should become a central #US partner against #ISIS & #AlQaeda in #Africa, calling the #RepublicOfSomaliland “#NaturalAlly, #democratic, #secure & #strategically vital” in the growing #RedSeaSecurity contest.
https://saxafimedia.com/counter-isis-africa-us-must-partner-somaliland/
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#American analyst @mrubin1971 says the #UnitedStates should partner with #Somaliland, #Libya & #Rwanda to counter the growing #ISIS & #AlQaeda threat across #Africa, calling Somaliland a #democratic & strategic ally in the #HornOfAfrica.
https://saxafimedia.com/counter-the-islamic-state-africa-us-rely-libya/
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🇹🇷🇷🇺 ¡Erdogan bajo la lupa! 🏛️🚨 Nuevos documentos aseguran que Turquía protegió a Al Qaeda tras el asesinato del embajador ruso Andrei Karlov 🛡️✨. ¡El asesino fue ejecutado para que no hablara! 🚫 #AlQaeda #AndreiKarlov #erdogan #geopolítica #magnicidio #MevlütMertAltıntaş #mit #rusia #turquía https://soyarmenio.com/erdogan-al-qaeda-asesinato-embajador-karlov/
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The Imperialist Attack on the Alliance of Sahel States 2.0
From foreign-backed ambushes to French-orchestrated destabilization, this analysis exposes how imperialism weaponizes minority struggles to fracture the Sahel — and why only Pan‑African unity can defy a new scramble for Africa.
Around two years ago, precisely July 27, 2024, armed Tuareg militants conducted a wide attack on northern Mali, killing a score of Malian armed forces stationed in the unstable region. While that attack, if framed within a closed national framework, can be presented as an internal matter between the Tuareg minority and the rulers in Bamako, it does not clearly paint the full picture of the nature of that uptick in violence, who conducted it, why specifically Mali, and why at this conjuncture.
Again, in 2026 April 25, another attack, bigger in scale, was unleashed in:
- Kidal, 1500km northwest of the capital, Bamako,arguably the largest military outpost of the Malian Armed Forces in the region neighboring Algeria
- Gao, 1200km northeast of the capital, key area in the node of logistics and transport
- Sevare, 600km east of the capital, similar to Gao, key node
- Kati, 25km northwest of the capital, which saw the killing of the Defense Minister of Mali, Sadio Camara, after suffering injuries from a suicide bombing and clashes with the militants, coinciding with an attack on the international airport in the capital region
The Transitional Government of Mali issued a statement, stating:
“The Transition Government of Mali deeply regrets to inform the public of the tragic death of Corps Army General Sadio CAMARA, Minister of State, Minister of Defense and Veterans Affairs. Indeed, following the cowardly terrorist incidents that occurred on the morning of April 25, 2026, a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device driven by a suicide bomber targeted the residence of the said Minister. He exchanged fire with the attackers, managing to neutralize some of them. During intense fighting, he was wounded, then taken to the hospital, where he unfortunately succumbed to his injuries. Furthermore, the collapse of his residence caused other casualties and the destruction of a nearby mosque, leading to the death of several worshippers who were inside.”[1]
Meanwhile, the president of the Alliance of the Sahel State (Alliance des États du Sahel — AES) released a communique that read:
“The coordination of the attacks, the targets chosen, the number of operatives involved in the atrocity, as well as the logistics and weapons used, clearly indicate that these were long-planned and coordinated actions aimed at inflicting heavy losses on the defense and security forces and sowing terror among the innocent civilian populations of the Confederation of Sahel States and particularly of Mali. The persistence of these barbaric and inhuman aggressions bears the signature of a monstrous conspiracy supported by enemies of the Sahel’s liberation struggle being waged through the confederal dynamic of the AES.”[2]
While much of the attack in Gao, Kati, Sevare and rest of Mali has been stifled by the Malian armed forces (alongside technical help from Russia’s African Corps), the fog of the attack carries the same hallmarks of its predecessor — an internationally coordinated, locally implemented operation meant to destabilize the Alliance of Sahel States project.
Since 2011, the region of Sahel and the larger Sahara has seen unending burgeoning instability. Following the destruction of Libya and the overflow of millions of weapons to NATO-backed rebels meant to overthrow the government, these very weapons that were somehow meant to promote democracy in Libya have trickled down to the south and the string of violence expanded in the swaths of the Sahara. Chad, Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso and many other countries carried the brunt of the ramifications of imperialism. These events are not stochastic, they are, in fact, conspired primarily by France, who is losing its stronghold on its former colonies due to the growing alliances between northern Africa and the Sahel states. Lest we forget, Hillary Clinton’s 2011 emails clearly stated that France’s push to intervene in Libya in 2011 was to stifle Libya’s Pan-Africanism and supplant the plans for the African Golden Dinar.[3] Further, France wanted to reassert its military presence in the region. One way to do that was to destabilize the region and present itself as its savior through its intervention.
A decade of French military activities in the Sahel has only strengthened the very armed terrorist groups (Al-Qaeda, Jama’at Nusrat Alislam wa Almuslimin ‘JNIM’, and Islamic State) that it was allegedly fighting, a testament to the failure of Operation Barkhane and its daily cost of 1 million Euros.[4] The masses and the military leaderships in the region swiftly rejected these dysfunctional alliances with the very country that colonized them and allegedly is acting as their savior. Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger had popular uprisings that resulted in coups that overthrew the former neocolonial leaders and sought to create a new vision between the three countries. The Alliance of the Sahel State, comprising these three states, kicked French troops out of the country, closed American military bases, and formed the alliance that is seeking independence while forming close alliance with an alternative pole (China and Russia). The Alliance, currently led by Captain Ibrahim Traore of Burkina Faso, strives to be an economic, military, and political alliance between the three states, since they face the same history, the same fate.[5]
Given what this Alliance represents to the rest of Africa (potential hope for more African unity), to the neocolonial leaders, puppets of the West (who protect the West’s interests, while being protected by the West — as was seen in December 2025 in Benin),[6] to the West that seeks to keep much of the continent, especially Western Africa region in a cycle of extractive dependency, it is being targeted by France and its puppets in the region. In 2023, ECOWAS planned to attack Niger to reinstate its deposed president, Muhammed Bazoum, but Burkina Faso and Mali coalesced their forces and began a defensive pact, an attack on one is an attack on all, warranting collective response. Now the AES, formalizing its integration into a unit since 2024,[7] has been targeted not only by neocolonial rulers of Africa, but from Ukraine, France, and their local functionaries.
The attack on Mali in 2024 was orchestrated by Ukraine. As we have shown two years ago,[8] the 2024 attack targeted a military convoy in northern Mali (Tinzawaten), close to the border with Algeria. The ambush resulted in the deaths of a significant number of Malian soldiers and their companions from the Wagner Group, a Russian private military company. Since this strike targeted one of Russia’s partners in the Sahel, Western media outlets eagerly sensationalized the violence, treating it as something to celebrate. More notably, Ukraine joined in applauding the bloodshed, with a Facebook post from its embassy in Dakar claiming that Kyiv had provided intelligence, information, and military backing to Tuareg militants. This claim was spread to portray Ukraine as capable of hitting Russia and its interests anywhere, framing it as part of an effort to globalize their reactionary, NATO-backed struggle for so‑called ‘democracy.’[9] In response, Mali and Burkina Faso cut diplomatic ties with Ukraine,[10] while Senegal summoned Ukraine’s ambassador for glorifying violence and fostering hostility within Mali.[11] Following the backlash, Ukraine’s Facebook post has since been removed.[12]
The 2024 attacks carry the same hallmarks as the one that unfolded in 2026. An indigenous group, the Tuareg, who have resided for centuries across Algeria, Burkina Faso, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco and Niger, picked up arms and began calling for self-determination and independence. This became a strong, western-backed demand after the formation of the AES. In other words, minorities in Africa, with real grievances emerging from the capitalist integration of their national economies, are often weaponized for imperialist purposes. First, the imperialist West manipulates minority issues to serve its own interests. In some situations, it invokes territorial integrity—such as with the Basque Country and Catalonia in Spain, Crimea and Donetsk in Ukraine, Western Sahara in Morocco, or Ossetia in Georgia—while in others, it aggressively advocates for self-determination—as seen with Kosovo, Tigray, Bosnia, and Taiwan. Palestine, of course, is consistently framed as a mere conflict, never as a matter of self-determination or national liberation. This selective use of terminology exposes the double standards that characterize imperialist diplomacy and practice. Second, the drive to further fragment the African continent—already carved up since the 1884 Berlin Conference—will not bring more sovereignty, economic decoupling, or genuine anti-imperialism (South Sudan is an example). In fact, if self-determination were applied without bias, the West would have recognized Catalonia’s 2017 referendum and imposed sanctions on Spain’s reactionary monarchy for denying Catalans their independence.
Instead, this approach serves as just one of many tools that Western imperialism uses to weaken the national sovereignty of countries in the Global South. Whenever there is a need or desire to further divide and carve up the African continent—and the broader Global South—the minority question is exploited to render targeted nations compliant and more dependent economically, politically, and in terms of security. In this way, the imperialist West (in this case France) co-opts the legitimate struggles for equality and justice that minorities in the Global South pursue, transforming them into a Trojan horse for imperialism. In other words, the minority issue is manipulated to infiltrate Global South countries and undermine their national sovereignty, ultimately benefiting the expansion of imperialist capital.
AES represents more than a stumbling block but a falling domino for French imperialism in the region. Beyond the rhetorics of Pan-Africanism espoused by the AES, materially, it has leveraged its wealth to transfer technology, indigenize development and redistribute land through the collaboration with the alternative pole.[13] The fact that Niger supplies Uranium to France to supply the latter with its energy needs while Niger’s population largely remains without electricity is one of the many contradictions that the AES is striving to address. France likely sees this project as a threat, and it will employ all of its tools to fight it. Just days before the attack, France 24 broadcast an exclusive clip of Omar Mariko, an exiled Malian opposition politician, in which he was shown sitting with Malian army hostages held by Al-Qaeda, calling on the Assimi Goïta government to negotiate and to tone down its hostile rhetoric toward France and the West in order to achieve peace in the country.[14] Such recordings often come via media intermediaries, including a man named Wassim Nasr, who maintains contact with Al-Qaeda elements and other armed groups in the Sahel region – which keeps him the permanent guest and the only “specialist” on Sahel affairs on the channel. As for Omar Mariko – no one knows exactly how he managed to reach these groups’ locations so easily – he was once seen as one of Mali’s most prominent Marxists. For years, he was subjected to smear campaigns in French media, portrayed as an extremist populist, an unprincipled opportunist, a political charlatan. Today, he is being reintroduced by some of those same media outlets as a “distinguished opposition figure” – reflecting the shift in his position and the role he now plays. A tale of how local actors can give legitimacy to foreign intervention, thereby being functionaries of imperialism.
The objective these organizations seek from this attack is to impose their control over the northern regions, and from there to weaken and bleed Mali through high-impact operations – because they lack the ability to penetrate the capital and overthrow the government, which also serves France’s interests. There are doubts about their capacity to hold fixed, stable positions such as the city of Kidal over the long term. For now, they are benefiting from a state of security confusion resulting from the Malian army being caught off guard, including the Russian Africa Corps withdrawal from Kidal.[15] Despite all this, they have suffered notable losses and were forced to withdraw from major cities like Gao after having controlled them for just a few hours. These groups – chief among them JNIM, affiliated with Al-Qaeda – tend toward a strategy of long‑range attrition. Over the past year, they have used this pattern to target fuel tankers and block the main roads used by trucks to transport fuel from Senegal and Ivory Coast to Mali. For weeks, most Bamako residents could not buy fuel for cars or motorcycles, and some neighborhoods experienced power cuts after supplies ran out, leading to near‑total paralysis in the normally crowded and vibrant capital.[16] This approach is fundamentally aimed at weakening public confidence in the state, stirring popular anger against the authorities, thereby creating mounting pressure and exacerbating instability.
With the 2024 Ukraine-backed attack and the 2026 French supported offence, there is a need to have a larger understanding of what is happening to the African continent, especially and the Sahel and Saharan states. The French offensive is also diplomatic (economic and political), as France is cohering the Africa Forward Summit: Africa-France Partnership for Innovation and Growth being held in Nairobi, Kenya, between 11-12 May 2026 (a local effort is being organized by anti-imperialist activists and groups, Pan-Africanism Summit Against Imperialism: Counter-summit to the “Africa Forward” France–Africa Summit).[17] The continent, as it faces underdevelopment coupled with imperialist expansion, there is a growing trend for mercenaries to act as soldiers in larger geopolitical battles. Just last month, a Russian gas vessel travelling through the Mediterranean was targeted off the coast of Libya[18] by presumably Ukrainian mercenaries.[19] Despite the ecological catastrophe this act harbors, just like the blowing up of the NordStream pipeline, it speaks to the growing network of unspoken terrorism done by the Global North in African territories. Further, it speaks to how far the blind support to Ukraine by their European counterparts will go even if it expanded the Donbas front to Africa. The only way to fight the unity of the enemy is to advance African unity, militarily, economically and politically. Otherwise, the continent will be balkanized and chopped into smaller pieces for the imperialists to chew on.
Kribsoo Diallo is a Cairo-based Pan-Africanist researcher in political science related to African affairs. He has written for many African magazines and newspapers, and Diallo has contributed to translated editions of papers and articles in Arabic and English for several research centres within the African continent. Twitter: https://x.com/nyeusi_waasi
Essam Abdelrasul Bubaker Elkorghli (PhD) is a Libyan researcher focusing, inter alia, on imperialism, ideology and education primarily in Libya. He serves on the International Advisory Board of Pambazuka News, as assistant editor to the Middle East Critique Journal, and member of the Global Pan-African Movement. He writes frequently for the Black Agenda Report. He can be followed on Twitter here (https://x.com/elkorgle)
Endnotes
[1] https://x.com/MaliMaeci/status/2048519198033186906
[2] https://x.com/MaliMaeci/status/2048507255700500893
[3] https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/6528
[4] https://www.aa.com.tr/en/analysis/opinion-operation-barkhane-france-s-a…
[5] https://www.blackagendareport.com/imperialist-attack-alliance-sahel-sta…
[6] https://www.pambazuka.org/index.php/The-Benin-Coup
[7] https://www.jeuneafrique.com/1569570/politique/mali-burkina-faso-et-nig…
[8] https://www.blackagendareport.com/imperialist-attack-alliance-sahel-sta…
[9] https://docs.un.org/en/S/2024/623#:~:text=*2415017*,and%20even%20the%20…
[10]https://www.the-star.co.ke/news/africa/2024-08-05-mali-cuts-diplomatic-…
[11]https://www.facebook.com/miaaesenegal/posts/pfbid02QRRs8ePCL89QUxSTM7Qi…
[12] https://www.rt.com/africa/602094-senegal-ukraine-ambassador-mali/
[13]https://english.almayadeen.net/news/Economy/mali-looks-into-using-russia-s-mir-cards–malian-official;https://english.almayadeen.net/news/Economy/russia–mali-launch-construction-of-largest-solar-plant-in-w
[14]https://www.france24.com/ar/%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%88/20260423-%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B6-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%8A-%D8%B9%D9%85%D8%B1-%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%88-%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%82%D9%8A-%D8%AC%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%A9-%D9%86%D8%B5%D8%B1%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A5%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85-%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86
[15] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3w3wyq4v14o
[16] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd071g83101o
[18] https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/23/world/europe/russian-tanker-mediterr…
[19]https://www.crisisgroup.org/anb/middle-east-north-africa/libya/libya-at…
Source: https://www.pambazuka.org/index.php/Imperialist-Attack-on-Sahel
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=32332 #alQaeda #allianceOfSahelStates #France #imperialism #mali #panAfrican #sahel #tuareg #ukraine -
Osama bin Laden: Fundador de al-Qaeda
El hecho más significativo sobre Osama bin Laden es que fue el fundador y primer emir general de al-Qaeda, una organización terrorista responsable de numerosos ataques en todo el mundo, incluyendo los ataques del 11 de septiembre en los Estados Unidos que mataron directamente a 2,977 víctimas. Nacido el 10 de marzo de 1957 en Riad, Arabia Saudita,…
#Akerix #OsamaBinLaden #alQaeda #TerrorismoGlobal
https://akerix.com/on-this-day/05-02-osama-bin-laden-2011 -
Osama bin Laden: Fundador de al-Qaeda
El hecho más significativo sobre Osama bin Laden es que fue el fundador y primer emir general de al-Qaeda, una organización panislámica responsable de numerosos ataques yihadistas y terroristas en todo el mundo, incluidos los devastadores ataques del 11 de septiembre en Estados Unidos. Nacido en 1957 en Arabia Saudita, bin Laden fue un líder milita…
#Akerix #AlQaeda #OsamaBinLaden #TerrorismoGlobal
https://akerix.com/on-this-day/05-02-osama-bin-laden-2011 -
Why is piracy rising off Somalia again — and is the Iran war responsible? | Crime News
At least three vessels have been targeted in hijackings this week off the coast of Somalia in what analysts…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #Africa #alqaeda #breakingnews #Crime #Djibouti #Explainer #Iran #ISIL/ISIS #MiddleEast #NATO #Shipping #somalia #US-IsraelwaronIran #WorldBank
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"The Looming Tower" by Lawrence Wright is a fascinating narrative of Osama bin Laden's life, the rise of Al-Qaeda, and intelligence failures within the American intelligence community.
https://amzn.to/4lXShku
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Maybe two things can be bad at once without needing tortured pretzel logic to equate them on every issue? No, it is BAD CAMP which is wrong!
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Maybe two things can be bad at once without needing tortured pretzel logic to equate them on every issue? No, it is BAD CAMP which is wrong!
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Current situation in Mali and FLA and JNIM advances amid joint offensive against Malian junta, per AmniMap.
This looks horrifying.
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Current situation in Mali and FLA and JNIM advances amid joint offensive against Malian junta, per AmniMap.
This looks horrifying.
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Atentado en Malí: muere el ministro de Defensa tras ataque de grupo yihadista
📰 Título original: Un grupo vinculado a Al Qaeda mata al ministro de Defensa de Malí en un ataque contra su residencia
🤖 IA: No es clickbait ✅
👥 Usuarios: No es clickbait ✅Ver resumen IA completo: https://killbait.com/es/atentado-en-mali-muere-el-ministro-de-defensa-tras-ataque-de-grupo-yihadista/?redirpost=b2935fa7-5bbd-4c4c-9050-de09624f3e68
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Malian Defense Minister Sadio Camara and some of his relatives were killed by the JNIM SVBIED that struck his house yesterday morning according to Le Figaro and Jeune Afrique.
Mali is falling into the hands of the rebels and Al Qaeda forces.
Just like Syria, it's going to be welcomed by the Arab and western nations with terrible consequences for West African nations.
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Malian Defense Minister Sadio Camara and some of his relatives were killed by the JNIM SVBIED that struck his house yesterday morning according to Le Figaro and Jeune Afrique.
Mali is falling into the hands of the rebels and Al Qaeda forces.
Just like Syria, it's going to be welcomed by the Arab and western nations with terrible consequences for West African nations.
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█ Un grup de programadors musicals, atrapat a Mali per una onada d'atemptats d'Al-Qaeda ▓▒░ Un grup de 12 programadors musicals, en què hi ha Judith Llimós, està confinat en un hotel de Bamako a causa d'una rebel·lió militar liderada per Al-Qaeda al Sahel
https://www.3cat.cat/3catinfo/un-grup-de-programadors-musicals-atrapat-a-mali-per-una-onada-datemptats-dal-qaeda/noticia/3406453/?ext=MASTODON_SOCIAL -
█ Condemna a la cimentera francesa Lafarge per finançament de grups terroristes a la guerra a Síria ▓▒░ La justícia francesa condemna la multinacional a pagar una multa de 1.125 milions d'euros mentre apareix la pregunta si els d[…]
https://www.3cat.cat/3catinfo/condemna-a-la-cimentera-francesa-lafarge-per-financament-de-grups-terroristes-a-la-guerra-a-siria/noticia/3404372/?ext=MASTODON_SOCIAL#delicteseconomics #franca #internacional #3catinfo #terrorisme #estatislamic #alqaeda #siria
