The Global Jigsaw - Life under JNIM

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The al-Qaeda offshoot JNIM is one of the deadliest Jihadist groups in the world. It exploits a security vacuum in Africa’s Sahel region to impose its Salafist version of Islam. In part one of this miniseries we explored the structure and ideology of JNIM. In this episode we’ll try to understand its impact on local life and on the region’s complex geopolitics which increasingly looks like a proxy war - on both the information and physical battlefields.

Contributors: Collins Nabiswa, Jacob Boswall, Barry Marston
Producer: Kriszta Satori
Presenter: Krassi Ivanova Twigg

Published on Friday, 15th August 2025.

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