Amadou Koufa, nom de guerre of Amadou Diallo, also spelled Hamadoun Kouffa or Amadou Kouffa is a Malian Fulani jihadist and preacher who founded Katiba...

with Katiba Macina founder Amadou Koufa, and maintained ideological and operational links with Koufa. These contacts with Koufa led Dicko and his older brother...

"Top Mali jihadist Amadou Koufa killed in French raid - army". BBC News. 24 November 2018. "Exclusive: Key Mali jihadist Amadou Koufa resurfaces to deny...

under ISWAP control. ISGS referred to JNIM leaders Iyad Ag Ghaly and Amadou Koufa as allied with the Malian government to fight the ISGS, and accused them...

increasingly-popular preacher Amadou Koufa. At the time, Katiba Macina had a small sleeper contingent of forty men in Soum Province of Burkina Faso. Koufa objected to a...

Katiba Macina, claiming to have killed their leader Amadou Koufa. On November 8, 2018, Amadou Koufa, the leader of Katiba Macina, released a video alongside...

impositions of sharia across united Mali. In March 2012, Malian President Amadou Toumani Touré was ousted in a coup d'état over his handling of the conflict...

and JNIM commander Iyad Ag Ghaly, along with the growing presence of Amadou Koufa and his Fulani-dominated jihadist group Katiba Macina. While attacks...

Keïta commanded around 200 fighters, and was heavily involved with Amadou Koufa's Katiba Macina. At the start of 2015, Keïta established a base in Samarco...

Army commanded by Mohamed Sidati Ould Cheikh. Later, JNIM stated that Amadou Koufa led the raid on Dioura, in contrast to the Malian Army's claims that...

al-Qaeda-aligned jihadist group Katibat Macina, led by Fulani preacher Amadou Koufa. The violence broke down upon ethnic lines in 2017, following attacks...

the group's shura and became second-in-command of Katiba Macina under Amadou Koufa. Yehiya appeared in a July 2022 video by JNIM announcing the group's...

Souleyman Mohamed Kennen, a close confidant of Katiba Macina leader Amadou Koufa, claimed responsibility for the attack. Kennen claimed to have fought...

fighting for years with Katiba Macina under the leadership of Amadou Koufa. Dicko opposed Koufa's idea of fomenting a jihadist insurrection, calling it too...

was in the Mopti Region of central Mali, where Katibat Macina led by Amadou Koufa (one of the five groups making up JNIM) was most active. Thirty-six Malian...

was the Ogossagou massacre. The Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin and Amadou Koufa had promised retaliation by Fulanis. The attack on Sobane-Da began on...

creation of the Macina Liberation Front in 2015, led by the preacher Amadou Koufa, has led to increased ethnic tensions and violence in the country. There...