Mali junta’s offers $3.5M reward for jihadist leader

Mali’s military government has placed a multi-million-dollar bounty on the head of one of the Sahel’s most wanted jihadist leaders.

Authorities are offering two billion CFA francs, about 3.5 million dollars, for information leading to the capture or killing of Iyad Ag Ghaly.

Ghaly leads the Group for the Support of Islam and Muslims, or JNIM, the Al-Qaeda-linked force behind some of the region’s deadliest attacks. The former Tuareg…