Rival jihadists: hundreds reportedly killed in Gonadaouri
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on RFI
Since August, the al-Qaeda-linked Group for the Support of Islam and Muslims has been fighting Islamic State in the Sahel near the borders of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger. The 9 October clashes in Gonadaouri, in Oudalan, are reported to have caused several hundred deaths in a fight for control of territory, according to RFI.
Clashes between the al-Qaeda-affiliated JNIM and Islamic State in the Sahel (IS-Sahel) killed several hundred people on Friday 9 October in Gonadaouri, in Burkina Faso’s Oudalan province, according to RFI.
The fighting between rival jihadist groups has been taking place since August in the border area between Mali and Burkina Faso, near Niger. It is being fought in particular over control of territory and ideological differences, RFI reports.
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