{"id":36914,"date":"2026-06-12T13:25:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T11:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=36914"},"modified":"2026-06-12T13:25:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T11:25:06","slug":"malis-al-qaeda-branch-offers-2-3-million-bounty-for-presidents-capture","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/malis-al-qaeda-branch-offers-2-3-million-bounty-for-presidents-capture\/","title":{"rendered":"Mali&#8217;s al Qaeda branch offers $2.3 million bounty for President&#8217;s capture"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">Mali&#8217;s local al Qaeda affiliate Jama&#8217;at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) has offered \u200bmillions of euros for information on \u200cthe whereabouts of the president and top military officials, describing the government as an illegitimate \u200bentity.<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>The insurgents&#8217; statement on Thursday follows a \u200bsimilar offer made by the government for \u2060information leading to JNIM leader Iyad \u200bAg Ghaly, and other militant figures.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>It was \u200bshared by the SITE Intelligence Group, which tracks jihadist activity and communications worldwide.<\/div>\n<div>Al Qaeda-linked attacks in April that \u200bkilled Mali&#8217;s defence minister set off \u200bfighting across the country&#8217;s vast desert north, raising \u200cthe \u2060prospect of significant gains by armed groups.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>JNIM offered \u20ac2 million ($2.3 million) for information leading to Assimi Goita, leader of the government in the \u200bcapital, Bamako, \u200bwho \u2060took power following coups in 2020 and 2021.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>The notice also offered \u20ac1 \u200bmillion ($1.157 million)each for information about \u200bColonel \u2060Lassina Diallo and General Malik Dicko.<\/div>\n<div>It said the reward would be paid to anyone \u2060offering \u200binformation leading to their locations \u200bor anyone taking concrete action to &#8220;neutralise&#8221; them.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u2014Reuters\u2014<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":28332,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-36914","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"JNIM offered \u20ac2 million ($2.3 million) for information leading to Assimi Goita.","published_date":"","news_description":"JNIM offered \u20ac2 million ($2.3 million) for information leading to Assimi Goita.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/36914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/36914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36916,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/36914\/revisions\/36916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=36914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}