Al Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM)

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2018 · 29 people were killed · a coordinated attack by JNIM on the army headquarters and the French Embassy in Ouagadougou · an armed Islamist resistance movement to the secular Algerian government. In 1998 · and announcing the name change in January 2007. Since its merger with Al Qaida · AQIM claimed responsibility for an attack on United Nations camp at Aguelhok in northern Mali · AQIM has also adopted a global jihad ideology · AQIM is a militant Sunni Islamist extremist group which originated as the Groupe Islamique Armeé (Armed Islamic Group or GIA) · AQIM's Mali-based affiliate · a splinter of the GIA declared its independence from the original group · as the new group named itself · believing the GIA's brutal tactics were hurting the Islamist cause. The Groupe salafiste pour la prédication et le combat (Salafist Group for Call and Combat (GSPC) · Burkina Faso's capital · employing conventional terrorist tactics including guerilla-style ambushes and the use of improvised explosive devices against military personnel and truck bombs against government targets · gained support from the Algerian population by vowing to continue fighting the government while avoiding the indiscriminate killing of civilians. The GSPC officially merged with Al Qaida in September 2006 · in Algeria and West African countries. In 2016 · in an AQIM attack on a hotel in Burkina Faso. In March 2017 · including six Canadians · Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) · killed at least eight people and wounding more than 80 others. In January 2019 · killing ten peacekeepers and wounding 25 others. AQIM is still active and continues its terrorist activities through armed attacks. · subsequently changing its name to AQIM · was formed. On March 2

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Source	Program	Name	Regime	Designated	Link
CA_LISTED_TERRORISTS	CA-LISTED-TERR	Canada Listed Terrorist Entities	Counter-terrorism	23/07/2002	source ↗

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