Faransa ta ce ta kashe jagoran al-Qaeda a arewacin Afirka
Faransa ta ce ta kashe jagoran ƙungiyar al-Qaeda na arewacin Afirka, Abdelmalek Droukdel, a wani samame cikin ƙasar Mali.
Droukdel ya mutu ne a wani samamen haɗin gwiwa tsakanin dakarun Faransa da abokan ƙawancensu, in ji gwamnatin Faransa Ministar tsaron ƙasar Florence Parly ta ce an kashe Droukdel tare da wasu na hannun damansa ranar Laraba a arewacin ƙasar. Ta kuma ce dakarun Faransa sun kama wani babban kwamandan ƙungiyar IS yayin wani aikin soji cikin watan Mayu a Mali. A cewarta samamen na hatsabibanci sun yi mummunar illa ga ƙungiyoyin 'yan ta'addan. "Dakarunmu, da haɗin gwiwar abokan ƙawancensu a Sahel, za su ci gaba da farautar su ba ji ba gani," in ji ministar. A matsayinsa na shugaban Al-Qaeda a Maghreb wato (AQIM), Droukdel shi ne jagoran duk rassan ƙungiyar a arewacin Afirka kuma yana jagorantar reshen al-Qaeda a yankin Sahel, wato Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM). Shi kuma kwamandan ƙungiyar IS da aka kama, Mohamed Mrabat, tsohon mayaƙi ne na masu iƙirarin jihadi kuma ya riƙe babban muƙami a reshen ƙungiyar mai suna Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS), in ji Misis Florence Parly. Ta ce an kama shi ne ranar 19 ga watan Mayu. A ranar 7 ga watan Mayu ne ƙungiyar IS ta bayyana cewa mayaƙanata sun gwabza wani ƙazamin faɗa da takwarorinsu na ƙungiyar Al-Qaeda a Mali da Burkina Faso. Ta kuma zargi mayaƙan ƙungiyar Jamaat Nusrat al-islam wal-muslimin JNIM da kai hare-hare kan tungoginta tare da datse hanyar da take samun man fetur da kuma tsare magoya bayanta.