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Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa
Rabu, 2026-05-20 01:29:27The Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (abbreviated MOJWA) was a militant Islamist organisation that broke off from al-Qaeda in the Islamic...
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Kamis, 2026-06-04 03:15:03(AQIM) and its splinter, Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MOJWA). On 22 March 2012, President Amadou Toumani Touré was ousted in a coup...
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Senin, 2026-06-01 10:03:18(MOJWA) clashed with the MNLA in the Battle of Gao, wounding MNLA secretary-general Bilal Ag Acherif and taking control of the city. By 17 July, MOJWA...
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Senin, 2025-03-17 05:52:56Abderrahmane Ould Meydou and El Hadj Ag Gamou. Salem reports that Tilemsi joined MOJWA in 2012, when Gao fell to the rebels during the Tuareg rebellion. He joined...
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Selasa, 2026-04-14 18:49:31(MNLA) and the Islamist Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MOJWA), along with its ally Ansar Dine, in Gao between 26 and 28 June 2012. By...
Click to read more »Tamkoutat massacre
Jumat, 2025-12-12 00:35:45connected to the jihadist outfit Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MOJWA) in and around Tamkoutat, Ménaka Region, Mali. In late 2013, after jihadist...
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Jumat, 2026-05-22 02:54:40Africa (MOJWA), with both sides firing heavy weapons at each other's positions. MNLA Secretary-General Bilal ag Acherif was wounded in the battle. MOJWA managed...
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Jumat, 2026-05-22 23:23:31two-day-long armed confrontation between a unit of the MNLA and a group of MOJWA fighters. The battle resulted in an Azawad victory but both sides suffered...
Click to read more »Omar Ould Hamaha
Selasa, 2026-05-05 08:18:44for both Ansar Dine and Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MOJWA), militant groups associated with Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM)...
Click to read more »Hamada Ould Mohamed Kheirou
Selasa, 2025-07-29 16:43:59the founder of the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO/MOJWA). Kheirou was born in Ouad Naga and a descent of the marabout tribe of Tegounanett...
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Sabtu, 2026-05-30 09:37:462012, Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MOJWA) and Al-Mulathameen split from AQIM. MOJWA was founded by Sultan Ould Bady and led by Ahmed al-Tilemsi...
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Sabtu, 2025-09-27 22:40:26threat of jihadist organizations operating in the region, including AQIM, MOJWA, Al-Mourabitoun, and Boko Haram. A series of new military juntas in the...
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Jumat, 2026-05-29 03:07:36in West Africa (MOJWA) with Hamada Ould Mohamed Kheirou and Ahmed al-Tilemsi, and founded Katibat Salahaddin, a katiba within MOJWA that later reformed...
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Jumat, 2026-05-08 02:15:20leader of the AQIM-affiliated Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MOJWA) in August 2012. On 24 January 2013, a faction which called itself the Islamic...
Click to read more »2014 Tabankort raid
Minggu, 2025-02-09 13:32:05Mali. The ambush led to the death of Ahmed al-Tilemsi, the founder of MOJWA and a key figure in al-Mourabitoun. Following "opportunity intelligence"...
Click to read more »Battle of Tin Keraten
Selasa, 2025-06-03 11:36:22Malian soldiers got near Tin Keraten, they were attacked by Islamists from MOJWA. French ground troops arrived supported by Tiger helicopters and Gazelles...
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Jumat, 2026-05-01 09:11:21for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MOJWA), after the Islamists began imposing Sharia in Azawad. By 17 July, MOJWA and Ansar Dine had pushed the MNLA out...
Click to read more »April 2013 Kidal attack
Kamis, 2026-04-30 21:31:47civilians were injured, in an attack by two suicide bombers affiliated with the MOJWA in Kidal, Mali. In early February 2013, Chadian and French troops occupied...
Click to read more »Second Battle of Gao
Senin, 2026-03-30 22:38:55Second Battle of Gao was the recapture of the city of Gao from Islamist MOJWA fighters by Malian/French forces. It took place in January 2013 within the...
Click to read more »Second Battle of Ménaka
Jumat, 2025-12-12 15:29:01Machkanani Ag Balla and Colonel Sidi Ag Moulya Molla ambushed a squadron of MOJWA rebels en route to Ménaka. The ambush took place in Tagarangabotte, on the...
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Kamis, 2025-03-27 07:33:58On February 26, 2013, militants from MOJWA conducted a suicide bombing on fighters from the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) and...
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Kamis, 2025-01-30 06:51:05reporting a clash between the group and MOJWA in Anefis. MNLA spokesman Moussa Ag Attaher stated that MOJWA opened fire on an MNLA checkpoint in the...
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Kamis, 2026-05-07 22:52:01Mano Jamali Maqsoodo Rind Mian Ji Masjid Mian-jin-masjid Jageer Mira Chhan Mojwa Mova Chhora Murad Ali Rind Paboro Pano Laghari Qubba Shahdad Quboyagan Ranjho...
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Rabu, 2026-05-27 09:38:04MNLA and Ansar Dine in May, anti-MNLA protests began in Gao supported by MOJWA and Ansar Dine. Clashes broke out between the two groups, and the jihadist...
Click to read more »Yoro Ould Daha
Jumat, 2024-09-13 01:34:40Arab warlord who fought in Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MOJWA) and the Arab Movement of Azawad's pro-government faction. Daha was born...
Click to read more »Fourth Battle of Gao
Minggu, 2025-10-19 17:34:38February 2013, during the Northern Mali Conflict. It was an attempt by rebel MOJWA forces to retake the city. The attempt was repelled by Malian government...
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Senin, 2026-05-04 07:13:51They were set free by the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MOJWA) in Gao, Mali on the 18th of July 2012, being transferred to Burkina Faso...
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Jumat, 2026-05-29 13:21:30government on plans for the future. 5 April: Islamists, possibly from AQIM or MOJWA, entered the Algerian consulate in Gao and took hostages. 6 April: The MNLA...
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Kamis, 2026-05-28 06:57:59secular movement was soon overrun by Islamist-oriented groups such as the MOJWA and the Ansar Dine. The French launched a military operation that ousted...
Click to read more »Battle of Hamakouladji
Kamis, 2025-01-30 06:51:07Hamakouladji was a skirmish fought between a unit of the Malian army and MOJWA jihadists that took place in the Malian village of Hamakouladji, located...
Click to read more »2014 Indelimane ambush
Sabtu, 2026-05-02 12:14:09left shortly afterward. Nigerien authorities reported that MOJWA was behind the attack. MOJWA had merged in August 2013 with Blood Signatories to form Al-Mourabitoun...
Click to read more »2017 Tilwa attack
Rabu, 2026-06-03 13:03:27Islamic State in October 2016 after Adnan Abu Walid al-Sahrawi split off from MOJWA and pledged allegiance to caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi a year prior. ISGS...
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Sabtu, 2026-05-30 10:46:58June 2012, the tension came to all-out combat in Gao between the MNLA and MOJWA, with both sides firing heavy weapons. MNLA Secretary General Bilal ag Acherif...
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Jumat, 2026-02-13 18:42:23controlled by the jihadist Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MOJWA). In early 2012, moderate Tuareg rebels of the National Movement for the...
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Rabu, 2026-06-03 06:16:15Russia Turkey Islamic militants al-Qaeda Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin MOJWA (until 2013) AQIM Al-Mourabitoun (until 2017) Ansar al-Sharia Macina Liberation...
Click to read more »Lemine Ould Mohamed Salem
Jumat, 2025-01-03 05:40:45to Gao and Timbuktu, which were under control of Ansar Dine, AQIM, and MOJWA at the time. The images and videos he recorded during his time in the cities...
Click to read more »Battle of Anéfis (2014)
Sabtu, 2025-02-01 20:44:01the MNLA accused the Malian army "supported by militias affiliated with MOJWA and El Hadj Ag Gamou" of attacking MNLA positions in Anefis. This statement...
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Jumat, 2026-05-29 13:21:49October 10. October The Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MOJWA) broke with AQIM, with the alleged goal of spreading its ideology further...
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Kamis, 2026-04-30 11:38:17Tuareg Rebellion of 2012 (2012) Mali FLNA Ganda Iso Azawad MNLA Ansar Dine MOJWA Defeat Malian President Amadou Toumani Touré is outed by a coup d'état MNLA...
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Rabu, 2026-06-03 22:51:04Islamic Emirate of Kurdistan 2001–2003 Byara Iraq Islamic Emirate of Gao (MOJWA and Al-Mourabitoun) 2012–circa. 2015 Gao Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin...
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Selasa, 2026-06-02 08:15:03Gao 25–27 January French forces attacked and successfully took Gao out of MOJWAs hands after they launched an offensive on Gao. Battle of Safira 6–19 February...
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Jumat, 2026-05-29 16:46:01(2012–present) Ansar Dine (2012–17) AQIM (2012–17) Macina Liberation Front (2015–17) MOJWA (2011–13) Nigerian jihadist volunteers (2012–13) Boko Haram (2012–13) Ansaru...
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Minggu, 2026-02-01 06:23:228 April 2006 7 June 2024 Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MOJWA) 2 June 2014 7 June 2024 Palestine Liberation Front (PLF) 13 November 2003...
Click to read more »Abu Hassan al-Ansari
Senin, 2025-12-08 14:08:38al-Tilemsi, the founder of the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MOJWA) who was killed in 2014. al-Ansari is suspected of planning and perpetrating...
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Rabu, 2025-08-27 04:39:42with Mokhtar Belmokhtar. When jihadist groups like AQIM, Ansar Dine, and MOJWA took control of northern Malian cities at the start of the Mali War, many...
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Senin, 2026-06-01 06:37:18Republic Sweden Islamic militants al-Qaeda Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin MOJWA (until 2013) AQIM Al-Mourabitoun (until 2017) Ansar al-Sharia Macina Liberation...
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Rabu, 2026-06-03 06:14:432021) CMA Platform (from 2021) 2012 MNLA Al-Qaeda AQIM Ansaru Ansar Dine MOJWA Boko Haram 2012–15 CMA (from 2014) MNLA HCUA (from 2013) MAA-D (from 2013)...
Click to read more »2017 Ouagadougou attack
Minggu, 2025-12-14 17:52:57Mali/Azawad where French forces intervened to oust the rebels from Ansar Dine and MOJWA. Meanwhile, the secular MNLA were also in the conflict, though largely separate...
Click to read more »Wanzarbé attack
Rabu, 2026-06-03 13:03:39Niger. The Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS) splintered off from MOJWA in the mid-2010's and became an official Islamic State branch in 2016 with...
Click to read more »2016 Bani Bangou attack
Rabu, 2026-04-29 12:48:32Adnan Abu Walid al-Sahrawi, a former commander in Malian jihadist group MOJWA, after Sahrawi pledged bay'ah to Islamic State caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi...
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Rabu, 2026-05-13 13:14:35(2012–present) Ansar Dine (2012–17) AQIM (2012–17) Macina Liberation Front (2015–17) MOJWA (2011–13) Nigerian jihadist volunteers Boko Haram (2012–13) Ansaru (2012–13)...
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Kamis, 2026-04-30 11:39:22(until 2007) AQIM (from 2007) Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin (from 2017) MOJWA (2011–13) Al-Mourabitoun (2013–17) Ansar Dine (2012–17) Ansar al-Sharia...
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Selasa, 2026-06-02 10:21:37Abdelmalek Droukdel and Mokhtar Belmokhtar and elements of Al-Mourabitoun and MOJWA led by Adnan Abu Walid al-Sahrawi (the future founder of Islamic State in...
Click to read more »Abu Bakr al-Nasr
Jumat, 2026-02-27 20:45:25announced the merger between Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MOJWA) and the Blood Signatories group. They ceded leadership of the new group...
Click to read more »Fifth Battle of Gao
Minggu, 2025-08-17 09:32:42Mali Result French-Malian Victory Belligerents Mali France Niger Guinea MOJWA Strength Unknown 9+ terrorists Casualties and losses : 1 killed 4 wounded...
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Senin, 2026-06-01 06:37:284 weeks) Islamist militants Al-Qaeda Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin MOJWA (until 2013) AQIM Al-Mourabitoun (until 2017) Ansar al-Sharia Macina Liberation...
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Rabu, 2024-11-27 16:23:59Songhai secular militia, the Ganda Iso (Songhai for "Sons of the Land"). A MOJWA spokesman said that the group had had an agreement with the Ganda Iso, but...
Click to read more »Operation Juniper Shield
Rabu, 2026-06-03 15:26:21(from 2024) Islamist militants Al-Qaeda Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin MOJWA (until 2013) AQIM Al-Mourabitoun (until 2017) Ansar al-Sharia Macina Liberation...
Click to read more »November 2015 Kidal attack
Kamis, 2026-04-30 21:32:01self-declared independence and consequent armed Islamist insurgency by MOJWA and Ansar Dine against the secular MNLA. This led to Operation Serval by...
Click to read more »Battle of Tabankort (2014)
Jumat, 2026-05-15 00:17:19the circumstances surrounding the clashes are unknown. The MNLA accused MOJWA of ambushing MNLA fighters, although French media reported the clashes were...
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Senin, 2026-06-01 04:40:08Sultan Ould Bady, head of Katibat Salahadin, one of the four katibas of MOJWA. In a telephone call to AFP, he stated the attack "was a response to the...
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Minggu, 2025-02-09 13:23:36flee towards a nearby village. RFI initially presumed the attackers to be MOJWA. Katiba Macina was also suspected to be behind the attacks. The Malian Ministry...
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Selasa, 2026-06-02 12:51:35Tunisian Combatant Group (until 2011) Islamic State of Iraq (until 2013) MOJWA (until 2013) Ansar al-Islam (until 2014) Jundallah Tehreek-e-Khilafat (until...
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Sabtu, 2025-02-01 09:26:56people had escaped from the facility, including a member of AQIM. Boko Haram/MOJWA Suspected 2013-07-21 500 50+ Abu Ghraib and Taji, Iraq Raids on the Abu...
Click to read more »2013 Tessalit attack
Rabu, 2026-02-18 18:16:18commander and founder of Katibat Salahadin. His katiba was a brigade in MOJWA, but had recently defected to Ansar Dine. Around the time of the attack...
Click to read more »Orphans of the Sahara
Minggu, 2026-05-31 10:04:50competition with the Islamists, namely Al-Qaeda's AQIM, Ansar Dine, and MOJWA/MUJAO, and also focused on further story of the Tuaregs struggling to survive...
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Rabu, 2024-01-03 08:28:40Islamist groups Ansar Dine, Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MOJWA) and Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). In 2013, the Islamists then...
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Sabtu, 2026-03-28 10:36:52detonated their explosive belts at a market, killing 4 Chadian soldiers. MOJWA Apr 15 Bombings, shootings 75 356 across Iraq 15 April 2013 Iraq attacks:...
Click to read more »Third Battle of Gao
Selasa, 2025-06-03 11:33:41during the Northern Mali Conflict. It was a raid on the city by rebel MOJWA forces. The raiders were defeated by Malian government forces with the support...
Click to read more »Tin Telout ambush
Sabtu, 2025-07-19 03:52:29however, between the moderate MNLA and jihadist groups like Ansar Dine and MOJWA. The MNLA and several other Azawadi nationalist groups allied under a coalition...
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Jumat, 2025-10-17 08:13:42Ansar Dine formed an alliance with other Salafi Islamist groups, including MOJWA and AQIM. The MNLA was de facto allied with the other Jihadist groups. Starting...
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Minggu, 2026-05-03 22:16:04intervention in Mali Belligerents Mali France Islamists groups: Ansar Dine MOJWA AQIM Boko Haram Commanders and leaders Dioncounda Traoré François Hollande...
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Selasa, 2025-06-03 21:19:11French-Azawad victory Belligerents MNLA France Arab Movement of Azawad (MAA) MOJWA Ansar al-Sharia (Mali) Commanders and leaders Bilal Ag Acherif Boubacar...
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Senin, 2026-05-25 05:38:27Mali Result French/Chadian victory Belligerents France Chad Ansar Dine MOJWA AQIM Boko Haram Al-Mulathameen Commanders and leaders Gen. Bernard Barrera...
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Kamis, 2025-01-23 08:47:38Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MOJWA) jointly condemned the Resolution at a meeting a few days after the Resolution...
Click to read more »Battle of Timbuktu
Kamis, 2025-07-17 05:25:30Location Timbuktu, Mali Result French-Malian Victory Belligerents France Mali MOJWA Strength Several hundred Malians, 150 French soldiers 50–100 Casualties...
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Kamis, 2025-11-06 02:27:34Honor – Music On Hold MOID – (i) Minimum Orbital Intersection Distance MOJWA – (i) Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa mol – (s) Moldovan language...
Click to read more »2016 Nampala attack
Rabu, 2026-02-18 18:11:57declaration of independence and consequent armed Islamist insurgency by MOJWA and Ansar Dine against the secular MNLA. This led to Operation Serval being...
Click to read more »Battle of Diabaly
Selasa, 2026-05-26 05:31:27and French army retake Diabaly Belligerents Islamists groups: Ansar Dine MOJWA AQIM Boko Haram Mali France Commanders and leaders Abou Zeïd Ousmane Haïdara...
Click to read more »Tagarangabotte ambush
Rabu, 2026-04-01 00:14:31and Ménaka, Mali Result MLNA victory Belligerents Azawad MNLA Islamists MOJWA AQIM Commanders and leaders Machkanani Ag Balla Moulay Ag Sidi Molla Mokhtar...
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Sabtu, 2026-01-10 01:07:552085 20 December 2012 15–0–0 The situation in Mali, including sanctions on MOJWA. 2086 21 January 2013 15–0–0 Peace keeping missions of the United Nations...
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Rabu, 2026-04-29 23:11:16Ménaka, Mali Result Islamist victory Belligerents Azawad MNLA Islamists MOJWA AQIM Commanders and leaders Machkanani Ag Balla Moulay Ag Sidi Molla Mokhtar...
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