SITE, Droukdel urged governments of the Sahel region to try to end the French military presence, calling the troops “armies of occupation.”It was not clear how long Droukdel had been in Mali, Algeria’s southern neighbour.
For years he was thought to be holed up in the Kabyle region east of the capital of his native Algeria, and many people had questioned why he was never captured by Algerian security forces, which had honed their counter-terrorism skills over the decades.He was widely seen as.