A senior Islamic State, ISIS, commander, Abu Huzeifa who had a $5 million bounty on his head has been killed by a joint force including troops from Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger.

Huzeifa had been linked to several high-profile raids in the Sahel region which includes a 2017 attack that killed four US soldiers and several troops from Niger.

He was killed on Sunday in an operation in the Northern town of Indelimane in the Menaka region.

Source: https://dailypost.ng/2024/04/30/senior-is-commander-abu-huzeifa-killed-in-mali/

Unfortunately, the mainstream media never reported this news for reasons best known to them

Should we say the bid landmass of some West African countries is a curse to them?

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Praxis758:
Should we say the bid landmass of some West African countries is a curse to them?

Niger

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Burkina Faso

Mauritania

The big empty dessert land of these countries provided shelter for ISIS. Anywhere there is ungoverned spaces , non state actors take over. The insecurities in the north is mainly because there are so many ungoverned spaces in forest reserves all over the north....Nigeria boast over 400 forest reserves mostly ungoverned and breeding ground for all kinds of criminality

Difrent:

The big empty dessert land of these countries provided shelter for ISIS. Anywhere there is ungoverned spaces , non state actors take over. The insecurities in the north is mainly because there are so many ungoverned spaces in forest reserves all over the north....Nigeria boast over 400 forest reserves mostly ungoverned and breeding ground for all kinds of criminality

If the bolded part were to be true, how come Russia with all of its huge landmass of 'ungoverned space' is not being taken over by these Islamic terrorists?

Ningishzida:
Unfortunately, the mainstream media never reported this news for reasons best known to them

You want them to report that their absence is not important in those region.
Was it not after they told them to evacuate their country they had that success

Ningishzida:

If the bolded part were to be true, how come Russia with all of its huge landmass of 'ungoverned space' is not being taken over by these Islamic terrorists?

Are you sure Russia's huge landmass is ungoverned?
They involve in lots of research so don't be surprised those large empty spaces are closely guarded

Difrent:

The big empty dessert land of these countries provided shelter for ISIS. Anywhere there is ungoverned spaces , non state actors take over. The insecurities in the north is mainly because there are so many ungoverned spaces in forest reserves all over the north....Nigeria boast over 400 forest reserves mostly ungoverned and breeding ground for all kinds of criminality

How about RUSSIA ?
What would you say about them ?