Islamic State in the Greater Sahara

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and Malian soldiers. The group claimed responsibility for the killing of a Canadian geologist in January 2019 and was suspected of attacking a Canadian mining company convoy the same year. In February 2024 · Burkina Faso security services · including Niger Gendarmerie forces · ISGS claimed responsibility for an attack on a Catholic church during Sunday mass in the village of Essakane · Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS) pledged its allegiance to the Islamic State in May 2015. The group has operated and has carried out attacks in the Mali-Niger-Burkina Faso tri-border area. ISGS's primary objective is the replacement of regional governments with a hardline Salafi-jihadist caliphate in the Sahel region governed by Sharia law. ISGS regularly targets regional security and military forces · IS Sahel militants on motorbikes attacked a market in the town of Chatoumane · killing 91 soldiers and at least 40 civilians. · killing at least 12 people. In December 2024 · Mali · Niger

Sanctions programs · 1

Source	Program	Name	Regime	Designated	Link
CA_LISTED_TERRORISTS	CA-LISTED-TERR	Canada Listed Terrorist Entities	Counter-terrorism	03/02/2021	source ↗

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