Bamako, Nov 13, 2025 (AFP) - Royal ransoms, a top money-maker for Mali's jihadist kidnappers

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2025-11-13

At least $50 million for the freedom of an Emirati sheikh: that is the king's ransom paid two weeks ago to jihadists linked to Al-Qaeda who are pushing to topple the Malian government and impose Islamic law. Alongside a crippling fuel blockade, the Group for the Support of Islam and Muslims, known by its Arabic acronym JNIM, has made kidnapping wealthy foreigners for a ransom a pillar of its strategy of "economic jihad". Its goal: oust the junta,......

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