
How an al-Qaeda offshoot became one of Africa's deadliest militant groups
JNIM has emerged as the deadliest jihadist group in West Africa as armies struggle to stem the attacks.
BBC News
Jama'at Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin is a Salafi Jihadist organisation in the Maghreb and West Africa formed by the merger of Ansar Dine, al-Mourabitoun and the Saharan branch of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. Its leaders swore allegiance to Ayman al-Zawahiri.
JNIM has emerged as the deadliest jihadist group in West Africa as armies struggle to stem the attacks.