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| Senegal Uncovers Jihadist Cell in East of Country |
| 2021-02-10 |
| [AnNahar] Senegal ... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees... ese authorities have foiled a jihadist cell linked to al-Qaeda-affiliated murderous Moslems in Mali, a leading newspaper in the West African state reported on Monday. Gendarmes arrested four men in late January in the eastern town of Kidira, which lies on the border with Senegal's war-torn neighbor Mali, according to the Liberation newspaper. A shopkeeper who has been under surveillance for two years was among the men who were arrested, it added. The shopkeeper's telephone number reportedly appeared on a Whatsapp group linked to the Katiba Macina jihadist group. Although he denies affiliation with the group, he is suspected of acting as a recruiter inside Senegal. Katiba Macina is one of the key gangs in al-Qaeda-aligned Group to Support Islam and Moslems (GSIM) -- which is one of the largest jihadist alliances operating in Mali. Mali has been struggling to contain an Islamist insurgency which first emerged in 2012, killing thousands of soldiers and civilians and displacing hundreds of thousands more. The conflict has since spread to neighboring Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... and Niger, inflaming ethnic tensions along the way. Senegal has so far been spared jihadist attacks. However the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... Security Council warned in a report this month that GSIM figures "have established themselves in Senegal." The head of La Belle France's external intelligence agency, Bernard Emie, also said this month that GSIM is seeking to expand in Ivory Coast and Benin. The four men arrested in Kidira were due to attend a hearing with a public prosecutor in Senegal's capital Dakar on Monday, according to Liberation newspaper, on suspicion of criminal association and supporting acts of terrorism. Neither the Senegalese gendarmes, public prosecutor nor the justice ministry immediately responded to questions from AFP about the case. Related: Senegal: 2021-02-07 UK expelled 3 Chinese spies posing as journalists in past year - report Senegal: 2020-12-18 French modelling agent friend of Jeffrey Epstein arrested at Paris airport, accused of rape and human trafficking Senegal: 2020-12-15 French Jihadist Caught Trying to Enter Turkey from Syria |
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