Mujao claims to have taken control of the town of Halil
The Movement for the uniqueness and jihad in West Africa (Mujao) said on Thursday that it had taken control of the town of Halil, located on the border between Mali and Algeria, previously controlled by the MNLA and asked expropriated people to come and collect their goods on presentation of bills, it was learned Friday from the inhabitants of the city Ansongo.
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Mujao has taken control of the town of Halil, which was in the hands of MNLA National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad, according to Xinhua.They added that the Mujao asked people whose motorcycles and vehicles were stolen by the MNLA to pick them up showing evidence of ownership in Gao and Ansongo.
The Mujao fighters according to residents of Gao and Ansongo had been fighting to take Halil since Wednesday.
The same statements were made in all towns in northern Mali, controlled by Mujao including Gao and Ansongo.
The regions of Gao, Kidal and Timbuktu are under the control of armed groups and Islamist terrorists, Mujao and Ansar Dine.
In another report Al Akhbar reports that Salafi armed groups in northern Mali occupied areas around the city Al-Khalil three kilometers from the border with Algeria seizing 49 vehicles, quantities of arms and drugs, said a leader of Mujao to Alakhbar on Thursday.
"The operation took place on Wednesday. It was jointly conducted by the phalanx of Mujao and ' turbans' a term for dissenting AQIM. It was led by Al-Azaouadi Yoro and Abu Al-Oumama Jazaïri, "said the source.
In addition, another leader of the Mujao, phalanx, "Salah Dine" headed by Sultan Ould Badi, said that it had decided not to participate in this operation. For him, "there's aspects of it that are not clear in this operation" whose targets were "ordinary people who are not combatants, or traffickers."
It should be noted that this is the first time that a component of the Salafist movement Mujao rejected the decisions taken by the movement.
The Mujao fighters according to residents of Gao and Ansongo had been fighting to take Halil since Wednesday.
The same statements were made in all towns in northern Mali, controlled by Mujao including Gao and Ansongo.
The regions of Gao, Kidal and Timbuktu are under the control of armed groups and Islamist terrorists, Mujao and Ansar Dine.
In another report Al Akhbar reports that Salafi armed groups in northern Mali occupied areas around the city Al-Khalil three kilometers from the border with Algeria seizing 49 vehicles, quantities of arms and drugs, said a leader of Mujao to Alakhbar on Thursday.
"The operation took place on Wednesday. It was jointly conducted by the phalanx of Mujao and ' turbans' a term for dissenting AQIM. It was led by Al-Azaouadi Yoro and Abu Al-Oumama Jazaïri, "said the source.
In addition, another leader of the Mujao, phalanx, "Salah Dine" headed by Sultan Ould Badi, said that it had decided not to participate in this operation. For him, "there's aspects of it that are not clear in this operation" whose targets were "ordinary people who are not combatants, or traffickers."
It should be noted that this is the first time that a component of the Salafist movement Mujao rejected the decisions taken by the movement.
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