As Al Qaeda’s official branch in North Africa, Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), was undertaking the hotel siege in the capital city of the Western African country Burkina Faso, the jihadist ...

MUJAO split from AQIM in October 2011, following accusations that AQIM was too dominated by Arab commanders and criticisms of its methods of jihad. From the beginning, MUJAO had a clearly Sahelian ...