Moroccan Truckers Freed: Mali-Morocco Intelligence Triumph Over ISIS in Sahel

Relief for the families of the Moroccan truck drivers kidnapped in Mali. In a statement read by the country’s television, the Malian government announces that the four Moroccan truck drivers, kidnapped in January 2025 in northeastern Burkina Faso near the border with Niger, were released on the evening of Sunday, August 3, 2025.

"The Government of the Republic of Mali informs the national and international public opinion that four Moroccan truck drivers kidnapped on January 18, 2025, in northeastern Burkina Faso near the border with Niger, were released safe and sound on the evening of Sunday, August 3, 2025," specifies the same source, adding that the Moroccan truckers "were in the hands of the terrorist group Islamic State in the Sahel province," which is the Sahelian branch of Daesh.

And to conclude: "This release was successful thanks to the coordination of efforts between the National Security Agency of Mali and the Directorate General of Studies and Documentation (DGED) of Morocco, who together conducted the investigations, with determination and professionalism, from the first hours of the kidnapping."

To recall, these Moroccan truck drivers had been missing since Saturday, January 18, 2025, around 10 a.m., while they were traveling between Dori, in northeastern Burkina Faso, and Téra, in western Niger, aboard three trucks.