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Sedane Ag Hita
Sedane Ag Hita, also known as Abou Abdelhakim al-Kidali, is a Malian jihadist who is currently serving as the second-in-command of Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal-Muslimin since March 11, 2019. Biography Early life and AQIM years Hita was born in Kidal, Mali and joined the National Guard of Mali, Malian National Guard where he received the rank of sergeant-major. Hita deserted the Malian army in 2006 at the onset of the 2006 Tuareg rebellion, and joined Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in the early 2010s. He joined Katiba Al Ansar led by Abdelkrim al-Targui, and was active as a fighter in Kidal Region. Around this time, Hita took the kunya of Abou Abdel Hamid al-Kidali or al-Qairawani. In November or December 2012, the Youssef Ibn Tachfin katiba was founded by AQIM, and Hita was put in charge of it. The brigade was composed mostly of Tuaregs, and was active in Kidal Region and particularly in the Adrar des Ifoghas. In February 2013, Hita escaped French bombardment during the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kidal
Kidal ( Tuareg Berber: ⴾⴸⵍ, KDL, Kidal) is a town and commune in the desert region of northern Mali. The town lies northeast of Gao and is the capital of the Kidal Cercle and the Kidal Region. The commune has an area of about and includes the town of Kidal and 31 other settlements. History On 30 March 2012, Kidal and its military base were captured by the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad as part of the Tuareg rebellion for the independence of Azawad. A spokesman for the Malian military junta said "To preserve the life of the people of Kidal, the military command decided not to prolong the battle". Gao and Timbuktu were captured within the next 48 hours, and on 6 April, the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad declared the independence of Azawad from Mali. In the course of the conflict the MNLA lost their control to Islamist militias. On 30 January 2013 French and Malian forces moved into the town to bring it back under government control. O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrar Des Ifoghas
The Adrar des Ifoghas (also Adrar des Iforas; Tamasheq: ⴰⴷⵔⴰⵔ ⵏ ⵉⴼⵓⵖⴰⵙ in Tifinagh; Adrar n Ifoghas; ar, أدرار إيفوغاس Ifoghas' Mountains) is a massif located in the Kidal Region of Mali, reaching into Algeria. It has an area of around 250,000 square kilometers (97,000 square miles). Geography The Adrar des Ifoghas area is characterized by wide, shallow valleys and is strewn with piles of eroded granite blocks. The massif's valleys open to the Tamesna plain on the east, to the Telemsi fosse on the west, to the western basin of the Azaouak valley on the south and to the Tanezrouft on the north. Settlements of the area include Kidal, Aguel'hoc, Boghassa, Essouk and Tessalit. The Adrar des Ifoghas is known locally as "Adagh". "Adrar" is the Berber word for mountain, while "Ifogha" is the name of an aristocratic Tuareg clan, " Kel Ifoghas", who have dominated the region for generations. Like most Tuareg, the Kel Ifoghas are nomadic, raisin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 Ouagadougou Attacks
On 15 January 2016, gunmen armed with heavy weapons attacked the Cappuccino restaurant and the Splendid Hotel in the heart of Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso. The number of fatalities reached 30, while at least 56 were wounded; a total of 176 hostages were released after a government counter-attack into the next morning as the siege ended. Three perpetrators were also killed. The nearby YIBI hotel was then under siege, where another attacker was killed. Notably, former Swiss MPs Jean-Noël Rey and Georgie Lamon were killed. Responsibility for the attack was claimed by Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and Al-Mourabitoun. Background Following the Libyan Civil War, neighbouring Mali has been wracked by instability, including Islamist attacks, in the Northern Mali conflict. Neighbouring countries have also been experiencing a Boko Haram insurgency. More locally, the 2014 Burkinabé uprising ousted President Blaise Compaoré, while the consequent 2015 Burkinabe co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015 Bamako Hotel Attack
On 20 November 2015, Islamist militants took 170 hostages and killed 20 of them in a mass shooting at the Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako, the capital city of Mali. Includes video. Malian commandos along with a special mission unit operator from the US Army’s Combat Application Group, commonly referred to as Delta Force, assaulted the hotel and freed the surviving hostages. Al-Mourabitoun claimed that it carried out the attack "in cooperation with" Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb; an Al Qaeda member confirmed that the two groups cooperated in the attack. Background Following the Libyan civil war, many ethnic Tuareg who had fought for the Gaddafi government and the rebels took their weapons and left for Azawad (a region in Northern Mali that the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) wants to be an independent state). Following several previously failed Tuareg rebellions, the MNLA managed to take over the area and declare independence. However, the secular mov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamanrasset
Tamanrasset (; ar, تامنراست), also known as Tamanghasset or Tamenghest, is an oasis city and capital of Tamanrasset Province in southern Algeria, in the Ahaggar Mountains. It is the chief city of the Algerian Tuareg. It is located an altitude of . As of the 2008 census, it has a population of 92,635, up from 72,741 in 1998, with an annual growth rate of 2.5%. Tamanrasset was originally established as a military outpost to guard the trans-Saharan trade routes. Surrounded by the barren Sahara Desert, very high temperatures of over have been recorded here. Tamanrasset is located at an oasis where, despite the difficult climate, citrus fruits, apricots, dates, almonds, cereals, corn, and figs are grown. The Tuareg people were once the town's main inhabitants. Tamanrasset is a tourist attraction during the cooler months. Visitors are also drawn to the Museum of the Hoggar, which offers many exhibits depicting Tuareg life and culture. The city is served by Tamanrasset Airp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WhatsApp
WhatsApp (also called WhatsApp Messenger) is an internationally available freeware, cross-platform, centralized instant messaging (IM) and voice-over-IP (VoIP) service owned by American company Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook). It allows users to send text and voice messages, make voice and video calls, and share images, documents, user locations, and other content. WhatsApp's client application runs on mobile devices, and can be accessed from computers. The service requires a cellular mobile telephone number to sign up. In January 2018, WhatsApp released a standalone business app called WhatsApp Business which can communicate with the standard WhatsApp client. The client application was created by WhatsApp Inc. of Mountain View, California, which was acquired by Facebook in February 2014 for approximately US$19.3 billion. It became the world's most popular messaging application by 2015, and had more than 2billion users worldwide by February 2020. By 2016, it had become t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Djamel Okacha
Djamel is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Djamel Abdoun (born 1986), French-born Algerian footballer * Djamel Amani (born 1962), former Algerian professional footballer *Djamel Ameziane, Algerian citizen, former resident of Canada, held in the US Guantanamo Bay detention camps * Djamel Bakar (born 1989), French football player of Comorian descent * Djamel Beghal (born 1965), French Algerian man convicted of terrorism *Djamel Belmadi (born 1976), retired Algerian footballer and current head coach of Lekhwiya *Djamel Bouras (born 1971), French judoka of Algerian origin *Djamel Laroussi, Algerian singer, composer, songwriter, arranger and guitar player * Djamel Leeflang (born 1992), Dutch footballer *Djamel Lifa (born 1969), retired boxer from France *Hervé Djamel Loiseau, French soldier burnt to death in the Battle of Tora Bora in December 2001 *Djamel Mastouri, Paralympian athlete from France competing mainly in category T37 middle-distance events * Djamel Menad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MINUSMA
The United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (, MINUSMA) is a United Nations peacekeeping mission in Mali. MINUSMA was established on 25 April 2013 by United Nations Security Council Resolution 2100 to stabilise the country after the Tuareg rebellion of 2012. It was officially deployed on 1 July, and has become the UN's most dangerous peacekeeping mission, with 209 peacekeepers killed out of a force of about 15,200. Apart from MINUSMA, there currently are two further international peace operations in Mali. These are the European Union missions EUCAP Sahel Mali and EUTM Mali. History In 2012, Tuareg and other peoples in northern Mali's Azawad region started an insurgency in the north under the banner of the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad. After some initial successes and complaints from the Malian Army that it was ill-equipped to fight the insurgents, who had benefited from an influx of heavy weaponry from the 2011 Libyan civ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 Aguelhok Attack
The 2019 Aguelhok attack was an attack by Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin against the MINUSMA base in Aguelhok, Mali on January 20, 2019. At the time of the attack, the base was defended by Chadian and Bengali peacekeepers and was later aided by French forces as part of Operation Barkhane. Prelude In 2012, Tuareg militants rebelled against the Malian government due to a lack of autonomy. The rebellion grew quickly, with the MNLA capturing key northern Malian towns like Kidal, Gao, and Aguelhok. However, jihadist rebels from groups like Al-Mourabitoun and Ansar Dine also rebelled against the Malian government, sparking French forces to launch Operation Barkhane to kick all rebels out, and MINUSMA to launch bases in northern and eastern Mali. In 2017, all jihadist rebels merged into the al-Qaeda-aligned Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin, which grew in power and influence in 2018 and 2019. The Aguelhok camp in particular was established in 2013, and had been the subject of s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serge Lazarevic
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Serge may refer to: *Serge (fabric), a type of twill fabric *Serge (llama) (born 2005), a llama in the Cirque Franco-Italien and internet meme *Serge (name), a masculine given name (includes a list of people with this name) *Serge (post), a hitching post used among the Buryats and Yakuts *Serge synthesizer, a modular synthesizer See also *Overlock, a type of stitch known as "serger" in North America *Surge (other) *Serg (other) Serg may refer to: *Van Serg (crater), a lunar crater named for a pseudonym *''Serg.'', taxonomic author abbreviation of Lidia Palladievna Sergievskaya (1897–1970), Soviet botanist, professor, and herbarium curator *Serg., abbreviation for Serge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Verlon
Claude Verlon (6 July 1958 – 2 November 2013), a 30-year veteran, French journalist and sound engineer with Radio France Internationale, was killed along with his colleague Ghislaine Dupont in Kidal, Mali while reporting. Personal information Claude Verlon was born in Aubervilliers, Seine Saint Denis, France. He enrolled at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure Louis-Lumière and took night courses while he was working from 1984 until he graduated in 1986. Career Claude Verlon was sound engineer at Radio France Internationale from 1982 until his murder in 2013. In 1984, he made his first reports as a field reporter. He contributed to the creation of the first reporting service at RFI. At the time of his death, Verlon was a deputy director of technical services at RFI. Verlon was passionate about Africa and he had made other missions to this continent while at RFI. In 2005, Bamako, he created a radio studio outside the 23rd summit Africa-France to cover the event. He specializ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghislaine Dupont
Ghislaine Dupont (; 13 January 1956 – 2 November 2013) was a French journalist who specialised in African issues. Personal history She lived as a child some years in Africa. After college, she enrolled in the École supérieure de journalisme de Paris. Career She began her career by writing in ''Ouest-France'' and '' Témoignage Chrétien''. She worked afterwards with free radio stations, including ''Gilda La Radiopolitaine'' in Paris. She joined Radio France Belfort then for the first time Radio France Internationale in 1986, before going to Morocco in Tangier for private Radio Méditerranée Internationale. After her final return to RFI in 1990, Dupont worked only about African issues: with UNITA in Angola, in Sierra Leone in the territories handed by the Revolutionary United Front, RUF, Djibouti, Ethiopia-Eritrea conflict, Rwanda, Sudan, Algeria and Ivory Coast where she revealed the existence of mass graves in Abidjan. She was active in the Democratic Republic of Congo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
