Aqmi leader Abou Moussaab Abdel Wadoud, alias Abdelmalek Droukdal, on an unspecified date - afp.com

"On June 3, the French armed forces, with the support of their partners, neutralized the emir Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQMI), Abdelmalek Droukdal and several of his close collaborators, during an operation in the north of Mali, "announced Florence Parly on Friday evening.

On June 3, the French armed forces, with the support of their partners, neutralized the emir Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQMI), Abdelmalek Droukdal and several of his close collaborators, during an operation in northern Mali .

- Florence Parly (@florence_parly) June 5, 2020

Abdelmalek Droukdal (Abou Moussaab Abdel Wadoud), “member of the Al-Qaida steering committee, commanded all of the Qaida groups in North Africa and the Sahel strip, including JNIM, one of the main active terrorist groups in the Sahel, ”writes the Minister of the Armed Forces. This historic head of jihad in the Maghreb, commander of several Sahelian jihadist groups, was killed Thursday in the northwest of the Malian city of Tessalit, AFP learned.

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