I agree with you that some of this article is deeply flawed & the research is not thorough, but I find dismissiveness of the whole piece without explaining why also problematic. We can quickly comment on it amongst ourselves, but not useful to do so publicly without substantiating

Oh definitely! The only evidence I have of JNIM in some bits of the mine is that they provide security - near the water tower in the east for ex. + that they do pay some miners to extract for them (&others to transport). V different from the Nigerien mines, as I think you know

Oh really Adam? How come? Just the other day a source in Ntahaka was saying how JNIM leadership in his part of the mine changed (as in, two new guys managing workers)…JNIM has been in parts of Ntahaka&Ntillit for years…

ehhhh masterpiece