AQIM encroachment on Sahel worries Mauritania, Mali
12/03/2010
Mauritania and Mali are concerned by the number of al-Qaeda terrorists who have left Algeria's Kabylie region to join armed Islamist groups in the Sahara-Sahel, Mauritanian news agency ANI reported on Thursday (March 11th). Officials reportedly fear that the vast Sahara region of northern Mali and Mauritania will turn into the new AQIM battlefield.
On Thursday, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb claimed responsibility for the deadly March 8th suicide bomb attack on an army barracks in western Niger.
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