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Eugene

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Sat Mar 2, 2019, 10:00 PM Mar 2019

'Dead' Mali jihadist Amadou Koufa reappears in video

Source: BBC

'Dead' Mali jihadist Amadou Koufa reappears in video

2 March 2019

A senior jihadist leader in Mali has reappeared in a video, months after the authorities said he had been killed.

The death of Amadou Koufa was widely reported, after a raid by French forces in November.

The video, in which Mr Koufa mocks the reports of his death, has been verified by Site, a US-based monitoring group.

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After the November raid, a Malian army spokesman and the French defence minister "confirmed" the death of Mr Koufa, a senior member of Mali's most powerful jihadist group, JNIM,

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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-47428246
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