In the Sahel, al-Qaida says it is ready for dialogue with the Malian authorities

Terrorist groups are adapting their strategies in the Sahel. In Mali, the jihadist mosaic that tries to divide the territory is evolving. As the French army concentrates its operations against the Islamic State in the Grand Sahara (EIGS), its rivals and competitors are blowing hot and cold. The Islam and Muslim Support Group (GSIM) has said it is ready this week to " enter into negotiations " with the Malian state " to discuss ways to end the bloody conflict that has entered its seventh year in because of the invasion of the French crusaders, "said the terrorists. The French army, which deploys 5,100 men as part of Barkhane, declined to comment.

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The GSIM is only one of some seven groups that France is fighting under the generic name of " GAT ", for an armed terrorist group. But it is one of the most virulent: in January, he claimed responsibility for the attack on the Sokolo camp, near Mauritania, where 20 Malian soldiers lost

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