Nyorai kuenderera mberi kwechikamu chino - Pamberi pa2017, kurwiswa kwakawanda kwakaitwa neAl-Qaeda muIslam Maghreb (AQIM). AQIM ndiro bazi reNorth Africa reAl-Qaeda (AQ), rakavakirwa muMali. AQIM yakarwisa muSahel yose. Somuenzaniso, AQIM nesangano rayo, al-Mourabitoun, vakatora mutoro wokurwisa kwakaitwa muOuagadougou muna 2016
. Masangano maviri aya akanga abatanidzwa mwedzi mumwe chete izvi zvisati zvaitika muna December 2015, kunyange zvazvo kare vakanga vasina kuwirirana. Pashure pokubatanidzwa, vakawanda vaitarisira kuti ngozi inokonzerwa neAQIM munharaunda yacho yaizowedzera.