Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa

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Attacks on the Press | Algeria, Egypt, Ethiopia, Mali, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Tajikistan, Tunisia

Attacks on the Press: Journalism and Religion

Editors think twice, reporters do not dig deeply, columnists choose words carefully. By Jean-Paul Marthoz

(AFP/Brian Rasmussen)

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February 14, 2013 12:04 AM ET | | Also in Русский, العربية
Tags: Ahmad Salkida, Al-Shabaab, Ali Ahmed Abdi, Attacked, Boko Haram, Censored, Charlie Hebdo, Gao, Hamza Kashgari, Hizb-ut-Tahrir, Internet, Irshad Manji, Jyllands-Posten, Killed, Kurt Westergaard, Malick Aliou Maïga, Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa, Prophet Muhammad, Puntland, Radio Adar Khoïma, Radio Galkayo, Ruptures, Social Media, Stefica Galic, Tahar Djaout, The Innocence of Muslims, Threatened, Twitter, Urinboy Usmonov, Ye Muslimoch Guday, Yusuf Getachew
Case | Mali

At least five radio stations attacked in Mali

At least five radio stations were attacked in March 2012 as Tuareg separatists, allied with extremist Islamist militants, pushed the Malian army back from the northeastern region of Gao, according to news reports.

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September 24, 2012 4:14 PM ET |
Tags: Ansongo, Attacked, Censored, Gao, Harassed, La Voix des Jeunes, MNLA, Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa, MUJAO, National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad, ORTM, Radio Adar Ansongo, Radio Askia Mohammed Islamiya, Radio Doddya, Radio Rurale de Manaka
Case | Mali

Islamist militants seize and rename radio station in Mali

Militants belonging to the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO), a Salafist group affiliated with Al-Qaeda, seized control of community station Radio Soni in the northeastern town of Ansongo on August 29, 2012, according to local journalists.

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September 20, 2012 1:18 PM ET |
Tags: Al-Qaeda, Ansongo, Censored, Fatoumata Abdou, Issa Idrissa Maïga, Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa, MUJAO, Radio Islamiya, Radio Soni, Sharia
Case | Mali

In Mali, Islamist militants order station to stop airing music

Two officials of the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO), a Salafist militant group affiliated with Al-Qaeda, raided the studios of Radio Annya in the northeastern town of Gao on August 20, 2012, according to the BBC.

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September 20, 2012 1:18 PM ET |
Tags: Al-Qaeda, Couleurs Tropicales, Gao, Kader Touré, Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa, MUJAO, Radio Annya

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