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  "uid": "mali-iyad-ag-ghaly",
  "slug": "iyad-ag-ghaly",
  "name": "IYAD AG GHALY",
  "agency": "Foreign Gov't",
  "list": "Mali, Security Ministry",
  "category": "Terrorism",
  "charge": "Leader of the al-Qaeda affiliate JNIM across the Sahel; U.S.-designated global terrorist (2013) and subject of an ICC arrest warrant.",
  "reward": 3500000,
  "reward_text": "Mali's military government is offering about $3.5M (2 billion CFA) for his capture or neutralisation.",
  "location": "Mali / Sahel",
  "state": "",
  "state_name": "",
  "status": "At large",
  "warning": "",
  "image_url": "https://images.euronews.com/articles/stories/09/78/58/87/1024x538_cmsv2_0d514f00-f0de-5d48-900e-4e40a2955df3-9785887.jpg",
  "source_url": "https://www.africanews.com/2026/06/05/mali-juntas-offers-35m-reward-for-jihadist-leader/",
  "updated": "2026-06-08",
  "kind": "wanted",
  "caution": "",
  "remarks": "",
  "hook": "He led a rebellion, then an al-Qaeda army across the Sahel. Now his own country has put $3.5 million on his head.",
  "blurb": "Iyad Ag Ghaly is a former Malian diplomat from the Tuareg minority who took up arms against his own government in 2012 and went on to lead Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM), al-Qaeda's affiliate across the Sahel. The U.S. designated him a global terrorist in 2013, and the International Criminal Court has issued a warrant for his arrest. After JNIM's April 2026 offensive struck Bamako and five other cities at once, Mali's military government announced a 2-billion-CFA bounty, about $3.5 million, for his capture or neutralisation. He is presumed innocent.",
  "mystery": "For more than a decade he has moved through the deserts he once called home. His own nation's price on him is the highest it has ever set.",
  "rib": "",
  "ribcls": "",
  "source_class": "agency_scrapers",
  "corroborated_agencies": [],
  "sections": {
    "photo": {
      "status": "available",
      "message": ""
    },
    "charges": {
      "status": "available",
      "message": ""
    },
    "location": {
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    },
    "reward": {
      "status": "available",
      "message": ""
    },
    "source": {
      "status": "available",
      "message": ""
    },
    "corroboration": {
      "status": "empty",
      "message": "No other authoritative agency currently lists a matching name for this case."
    }
  }
}