Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa

Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa (French " Mouvement pour l' unicite et le jihad en Afrique de l' Ouest ", MUJAO, Arabic جماعة التوحيد والجهاد في غرب إفريقيا, DMG Ǧamā ʿ at at- Tawhid wa-l - ǧihād fī Garb Ifriqiya, the group of Tawheed (Oneness ) and jihad ( holy war ) in West Africa ') is a militant Islamist group in West Africa.

Objectives

The movement emerged from the " Al- Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb " ( AQMI ) 2011. Your goal is to extend the jihad to all of West Africa, including in regions that are not in the focus of AQMI.

Operations

The grouping was announced on December 12, 2011, when it published a video about three kidnapped aid workers, including two women, were arrested in the western Algeria.

In 2012 MUJAO belonged together with AQMI and Ansar Dine to the three Islamist groups that controlled the north of Mali under its control. This "National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad " ( MNLA ) the Tuareg rebel army was largely obsolete. In June 2012, MUJAO was involved with Ansar Dine in the fighting around the city of Gao, where at least 35 people died. In July 2012, fighters took over the MUJAO the city northerly Ansogo and drove out the MNLA insurgents.

In August 2012, the broadcasting of any Western music was banned in the regions of Gao, Timbuktu and Kidal. After the MNLA had temporarily regained control of the city in the same county Ménaka in October 2012, she was sold in November 2012 for the reconquest MUJAO again.

On May 24, 2013 MUJAO perpetrated an attack on a uranium complex in the French company Areva in Arlit. In the raid at least 49 people were injured. A short time later MUJAO members took hostages in a military camp in Agadez, which was completed a day later bloody from the French army.