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DAKAR (Reuters) – Al Qaeda’s North Africa Branch (AQIM) has appointed a new leader and confirmed the death of its former leader Abdelmalek Droukdel, who was killed by the French military in June, the Intelligence Group said on Saturday. IF YOU.
US-based SITE, which monitors jihadist websites, said AQIM showed the body of its former leader for the first time in a video.
The French army killed Droukdel in Mali after hunting him for more than seven years in the Sahel region.
AQIM said that after Droukdel’s death, another Algerian, Sheikh Mujahid Yazid Mubarak, also known as Abu Ubaida Yusuf al-Annabi, was chosen as his successor.
The group also confirmed the death of the Swiss Beatrice Stockly, who was abducted in the Malian city of Timbuktu in January 2016.
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