• Tilemsi is a commune in the Cercle of Gao in the Gao Region of south-eastern Mali. The principal town lies at Tine Aouker. As of 1998 the commune had a...
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  • Tilemsi may refer to two communes in Mali: Tilemsi, Gao Tilemsi, Tombouctou This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations...
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  • The Tilemsi Arabs or Arabs of Gao, include Arabic-speaking populations in the northeastern region of the Niger Bend, near Gao. They are distinct from...
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    of Timbuktu on the left bank at the junction with the Tilemsi valley. For much of its history Gao was an important commercial centre involved in the trans-Saharan...
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  • accounts of Tilemsi's life contradict each other. He was originally born to a Lemhar Arab family in the Tilemsi desert in Tabankort, Gao Region, Mali...
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  • Abu Hassan al-Ansari (category People from Gao Region)
    wal Muslimin. al-Ansari was born a Tilemsi Arab from the Tilemsi region of Gao. He is the cousin of Ahmed al-Tilemsi, the founder of the Movement for Oneness...
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    livestock breeding, traversing valleys such as Azawagh, Azgueret, Irhazer, and Tilemsi; the Gourma riverbanks; and the foothills of the Aïr Mountains and Adrar...
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  • French armed forces. In August 2013, a faction of the group led by Ahmed el Tilemsi merged with the Masked Men Brigade into a group called Al-Mourabitoun....
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    Gabero Gao (an urban commune) Gounzoureye N'Tillit Sony Aliber Tilemsi Synthèsis des Plans de Securité Alimentaire des Communes du Cercle de Gao 2005-2009...
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  • Fargas at Fossilworks.org Gao Trench locality 2 at Fossilworks.org Lapparent site 30c, Tilemsi at Fossilworks.org Mali12, Tilemsi Valley at Fossilworks.org...
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    of Tilemsi Arabs, and the MNLA is composed mainly of Tuaregs. Ethnic tensions between the two groups increased in the late 2000s, particularly in Gao Region...
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  • Tine Aouker (category Populated places in Gao Region)
    Tine Aouker is a small town and seat of the Commune of Tilemsi in the Cercle of Gao in the Gao Region of south-eastern Mali. "Previsions de desserte des...
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  • Raid on Tabankort (2014) (category Gao Region in the Mali War)
    militants from al-Mourabitoun near Tabankort, Gao Region, Mali. The ambush led to the death of Ahmed al-Tilemsi, the founder of MOJWA and a key figure in...
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  • in Gao. Ould Bady founded the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MOJWA) in 2011 with Hamada Ould Mohamed Kheirou and Ahmed al-Tilemsi. He...
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    instability following the coup, Mali's three largest northern cities—Kidal, Gao and Timbuktu—were overrun by the rebels on three consecutive days. On 5 April...
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  • allegiance to Al-Qaeda. Tilemsi and Belmokhtar allowed Abu Bakr al-Nasr to command the group. When Nasr was killed by French forces, Tilemsi took over until he...
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  • authority in Gao. Both sides clashed repeatedly leading to the Battle of Gao, where the MNLA were driven from the North's two main cities, Gao and Timbuktu...
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    in the north of the Tilemsi Valley. Located in the sandstone massif of the Adrar des Ifoghas, Adjelhoc lies 430 km north of Gao and 150 km south of the...
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  • organization formed by a merger between Ahmed Ould Amer, a.k.a. Ahmed al-Tilemsi's Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa, and Mokhtar Belmokhtar's...
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  • Tarkint (category Communes of Gao Region)
    (76 mi) from Gao. Tarkint extends for 23,000 km2 and includes part of the Tilemsi Valley. In the 2009 census Tarkint had a population of 19,082. The sandblown...
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    Bamba Bourem Taboye Tarkint Temera Anchawadi Gabero Gao Gounzoureye N'Tillit Soni Ali Ber Tilemsi Alata Anderamboukane Inekar Menaka Tidermene Bafoulabe...
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  • and an Ifoghas Tuareg that tribal mediation managed to calm down. In Gao, the Tilemsi Arabs are mostly grouped together in the fourth district, which was...
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    Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa, alongside the Malian Ahmed al-Tilemsi and Sultan Ould Bady, as well as the Mauritanian Hamada Ould Mohamed Kheirou...
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  • Ould Meydou (category People from Gao)
    Taoudénit Region since 2017. Meydou was born in Gao, Mali, and derives from the Lemhar Arab community from the Tilemsi desert. He joined the Joint Military School...
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    major success of Barkhane in December 2014 with the killing of Ahmed al-Tilemsi, the leader of the Al-Mourabitoun jihadist group, by French special forces...
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    desert region in the north east of the country: Alata, Ménaka Cercle in the Gao Region and Intadjedite, Tin-Essako Cercle in the Kidal Region. Not every...
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  • Battle of Hamakouladji (category Gao Region in the Mali War)
    miles) north of Gao, in the municipality of Tilemsi. According to Colonel Kassim Goita, a senior commander in the Malian army around the Gao Region, clashes...
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    11 – French troops in Mali killed top Islamist commander Ahmed al Tilemsi. Tilemsi was a founding member of Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa...
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  • between Tilemsi Arabs and Kunta Arabs in Anefis, leaving six dead. These clashes erupted following the battle of Ber, with some of the Tilemsi and Kunta...
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  • Yoro Ould Daha (category People from Gao Region)
    becoming a senior officer in the Islamic police of Gao. He joined Katiba Osama Bin Laden, led by Ahmed al-Tilemsi. In 2014, Daha claimed to have never fought...
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