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Abu Hassan al-Ansari

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Abu Hassan al-Ansari
BornTilemsi, Gao Region, Mali
DiedFebruary 14, 2018
Inaghalawass, Mali
Allegiance al-Mourabitoun (?–2015)
Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin (2017–2018)
RankEmir
Battles / warsIslamist insurgency in the Sahel

Mali War

Mohamed Ould Nouini, nom de guerre Abu Hassan al-Ansari (also written Abou Hassan al-Ansari) was a Malian jihadist known for perpetrating the 2016 Ouagadougou attacks and the Grand-Bassam attack, along with his high position in Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin.

Biography

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al-Ansari was born a Tilemsi Arab from the Tilemsi region of Gao.[1] He is the cousin of Ahmed al-Tilemsi, the founder of the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MOJWA) who was killed in 2014.[1]

al-Ansari is suspected of planning and perpetrating the 2016 Ouagadougou attacks that killed 30 people, and the Grand-Bassam shootings later that year in Ivory Coast.[1] In 2016, he was considered the right-hand man of Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the leader of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).[2] al-Ansari also led Al-Mourabitoun in Mali in 2015.[1]

He appeared in the 2017 video that announced the creation of Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin as a merger of five different jihadist groups led by Iyad Ag Ghaly.[2] al-Ansari was killed in the 2018 Inaghalawass skirmish. JNIM retaliated by launching the 2018 Ouagadougou attacks.[3][4]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Sahel : à la recherche du jihadiste Mohamed Ould Nouini – Jeune Afrique". JeuneAfrique.com (in French). Retrieved 2023-11-01.
  2. ^ a b "De la naissance d'un nouveau " djihadistan " au Sahel". Le Monde.fr (in French). 2017-03-10. Retrieved 2023-11-01.
  3. ^ "Après la double attaque de Ouagadougou, l'enquête progresse". Le Figaro (in French). 2018-03-03. Retrieved 2023-11-01.
  4. ^ "Ouagadougou: qui est Hassan al-Ansari, tué dans un raid français en février?". RFI (in French). 2018-03-04. Retrieved 2023-11-01.