Al-Qaeda Affiliate Claims Responsibility for Mali Attack

Nusrat al-Islam wal Muslimeen, known by the acronym JNIM, say the attack in Gao that left four civilians dead was a message to French President Emmanuel Macron ahead of the AU summit in Mauritania.

An army patrol in Gao (file photo).

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