Kidnapped by elements of the jihadist group JNIM on December 26, 2024, while returning from the locality of Diabadiala, Thierno Amadou Hady Tall, Caliph General of the Tidyaniya brotherhood of Nioro du Sahel, is believed to have died. His death was confirmed in an audio recording attributed to the head of Katiba du Macina, Amadou Kouffa.
L’recording in the Peulh language at the origin of the announcement of the death of the Caliph General of the Tidyaniya brotherhood of Mali lasts more than four minutes. It is attributed by several consistent sources to Amadou Kouffa, head of Katiba Macina, the branch of the Support Group for Islam and Muslims (JNIM according to its Arabic acronym) in Central and Southern Mali. The same terrorist group that claimed responsibility for the Khalifa’s kidnapping. The author of the audio that went viral on social networks explains that Therno Amdou Hady Tall succumbed to his injuries on the way to be questioned for the alleged facts of his collaboration with the Malian authorities.
The Caliph was injured during the kidnapping of December 26, 2024 in Diabadiala located some 70 km from the town of Nioro du Sahel. According to the recording, he died before even reaching his destination, where he would have to be brought before an “Islamic court”. Neither the Khalifa’s family nor the Malian government have yet denied or confirmed this information announced by the leader. of the Katiba of Macina. Enough to leave doubt still hovering over the death of the Caliph of the Oumarian brotherhood.
This supporter of the practice of moderate Islam was in the crosshairs of armed terrorist groups. Who justified the act of his kidnapping as retaliation for his collaboration with the Malian armed forces and their allies who are fighting against jihadist groups. In the first audio which announced the kidnapping of the Kahlife, the JNIM denounces these links with the Malian army and accuses it of having ordered reprisals against Muslims suspected of supporting jihadists.
Thierno Amadou Hadi Tall, Caliph General of Tijaniya in Nioro du Sahel, successor to his father, Thierno Hady Tall, who died in 2007, is an important religious figure. He is resolutely committed to supporting the Malian authorities in favor of peace. This commitment and his various calls for young people to turn away from terrorist groups have made him, in recent years, a target for extremists.
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