It is November 2022. The location is Liptako-Gourma, on the tri-border of Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso. Hundreds of Islamic State jihadists in the Greater Sahel (EIGS) are pledging allegiance to the new caliph of the Islamic State: Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurachi.
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