{"id":72166,"date":"2025-10-23T09:15:39","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T12:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubirataonline.com.br\/brief-jnim-attacks-in-benin-near-nigerian-border\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T09:15:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T12:15:39","slug":"brief-jnim-attacks-in-benin-near-nigerian-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubirataonline.com.br\/en\/brief-jnim-attacks-in-benin-near-nigerian-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Brief: JNIM Attacks in Benin Near Nigerian Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t<img width=\"640\" height=\"619\" src=\"https:\/\/jamestown.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-22-at-11.47.36-AM-640x619.png\" class=\"attachment-full-thumb size-full-thumb wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jamestown.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-22-at-11.47.36-AM-640x619.png.webp 640w,  https:\/\/jamestown.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-22-at-11.47.36-AM-300x290.png.webp 300w,  https:\/\/jamestown.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-22-at-11.47.36-AM-1024x991.png.webp 1024w,  https:\/\/jamestown.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-22-at-11.47.36-AM-768x743.png.webp 768w,  https:\/\/jamestown.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-22-at-11.47.36-AM-123x119.png.webp 123w,  https:\/\/jamestown.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-22-at-11.47.36-AM-600x581.png.webp 600w,  https:\/\/jamestown.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-22-at-11.47.36-AM.png.webp 1242w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\"\/>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><figcaption>A satellite view of Assamakka, Niger, where JNIM&#8217;s attack took place. The Algerian border is visible as a line in the sand. (Source: Google Maps)<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n\t\t\t\t \t<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><u>Executive Summary<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>JNIM is expanding both south and north, conducting new attacks from Benin to the Niger\u2013Algeria border\u2014showing ambitions to control a trans-Sahelian corridor that mirrors historical Islamic polities.<\/li>\n<li>The group is consolidating control in central Mali, potentially preparing for a siege of Bamako, while deliberately avoiding the governance burdens that weakened past jihadist administrations.<\/li>\n<li>JNIM\u2019s long-term trajectory hinges on strategic choices: whether to govern territory, assault regional capitals, or seek limited legitimacy akin to the Taliban or HTS\u2014each with major implications for regional stability and Western counterterrorism policy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jama\u2019at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (Arabic: \u062c\u0645\u0627\u0639\u0629 \u0646\u0635\u0631\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0625\u0633\u0644\u0627\u0645 \u0648\u0627\u0644\u0645\u0633\u0644\u0645\u064a\u0646, \u201cGroup for the Support of Islam and Muslims,\u201d JNIM) has conducted attacks since April in Benin, including near the border with Nigeria, highlighting the threat of the group\u2019s expansion in coastal West Africa (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/fr\/afrique\/20250423-benin-attaque-jihadiste-cinquantaine-de-morts-arm%C3%A9e-gsim\">France24<\/a>, April 24). This trend has been ongoing for several years, as JNIM has operated along the borders of Senegal, Ghana, C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, Togo and now Benin. Yet, JNIM\u2019s September 27 attack at the Assamakka border crossing in Niger (adjacent to the Algerian border) highlights how the group\u2019s operational reach is also expanding northwards (<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SoleilduNiger\/status\/1972670971237581002\">X\/@Soleilduniger<\/a>, September 29).<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Assamakka attack killed six Nigerien soldiers, while JNIM asserted it had taken control of the border post. JNIM rarely conducts attacks near the Algerian border, which has otherwise been relatively calm since the weakening of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and the death of its leader, Abdelmalek Droukdel (Arabic: \u0639\u0628\u062f \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0627\u0644\u0643 \u062f\u0631\u0648\u0643\u062f\u0627\u0644), in a French special forces operation in northern Mali more than five years ago (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2020\/6\/6\/france-says-its-army-killed-al-qaedas-abdelmalek-droukdel\">Al Jazeera<\/a>, February 6, 2020). However, control of the Niger\u2013Algeria border post, as well as operations near the border posts alongside littoral West African states, indicates JNIM\u2019s ambitions (if not also capabilities) to eventually operate in a wide swath of territory throughout West Africa that roughly corresponds to areas of pre\u2013colonial Islamic states.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">JNIM is expanding its peripheries and consolidating its presence around the Malian capital of Bamako, and could likely implement a siege of the city\u2014if not yet fully invade it\u2014in the near future. On October 3, JNIM\u2019s media wing, al-Zallaqa (Arabic: \u0645\u0624\u0633\u0640\u0633\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0632\u0644\u0627\u0642\u0629), released a video of the group\u2019s fighters standing over the corpses of Malian soldiers after JNIM ambushed them on the road from Bamako to Segou (<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Boswall_Jacob\/status\/1974052786179342664\">X\/Boswall_Jacob<\/a>, October 3). Only days before this, JNIM released another video of its fighters driving through towns in Segou that the group had taken over, showing the comfort and regularity of the group\u2019s interactions with civilians <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SimNasr\/status\/1972232248427794627\">(x\/SimNasr<\/a>, September 28).<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the key questions regarding JNIM\u2019s future is whether the group will seek to not just take over territory but govern it. Thus far, JNIM has preferred to make regional governments, especially in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger, unable to govern much of their rural areas\u2014but has not sought to formally replace them. JNIM may determine it does not have the resources to govern, nor is it willing to risk harming its image by governing poorly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A second question that remains to be seen is whether JNIM will eventually siege capitals, such as Bamako or Ouagadougou, like it has done to smaller towns throughout both countries. JNIM thus far seems to have decided to avoid incursions into capitals, considering that it lacks personnel or resources to consolidate control over such large populations, just as it is wary of governing in the countryside.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lastly, another question arises as to whether JNIM may moderate, or at least accept some modicum of international legitimacy, if it captures a state, like al-Qaeda-aligned jihadists in Hay\u2019at Tahrir al-Sham (Arabic: \u0647\u064a\u0626\u0629 \u062a\u062d\u0631\u064a\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0634\u0627\u0645, \u201cCommittee for Liberation of the Levant,\u201d HTS) in Syria, or the Taliban in Afghanistan. JNIM\u2019s Tuareg leader Iyad ag Ghaly (Arabic: \u0625\u064a\u0627\u062f \u0623\u063a \u063a\u0627\u0644\u064a), a former Malian diplomat himself, has expressed loyalty and admiration for both groups (<a href=\"https:\/\/jamestown.org\/program\/bringing-militant-salafism-to-the-tuareg-a-profile-of-veteran-rebel-iyad-ag-ghali\/\">Militant Leadership Monitor<\/a>, February 19, 2012; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/20120612-northern-mali-peace-dealer-or-wrecker-nine-lives-ansar-dine-chief-iyad-ag-ghali\">France24<\/a>, June 24, 2012). However, he has still not indicated that JNIM would cease terror and adopt a more moderate course of engagement with the broader international community.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jamestown.org\/program\/brief-jnim-attacks-in-benin-near-nigerian-border\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#13; A satellite view of Assamakka, Niger, where JNIM&#8217;s attack took place. The Algerian border is visible as a line in the sand. 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