source: Menastream
actor1: Islamic State (Greater Sahara)
actor2: Islamic State (Greater Sahara)
location: Menaka
notes: Sultan Ould Bady's Katiba Salah Eddine, previously loosely aligned with JNIM, and group of fighters who defected from JNIM's Katiba Macina pledged allegiance to the Islamic State while joining Islamic State in the Greater Sahara led by Adnan Abu Walid al-Sahrawi.