Mariam Cisse was a young TikTok star from Tonka, a small town in northern Mali. She was loved online for her fun and simple videos showing daily life in her community. But things took a dark turn last week when she was kidnapped while live on TikTok. According to AFP and Free Press Journal, armed men accused her of helping the Malian army by sharing details about their movements. They took her away, and the next day, in a horrifying scene, she was brought back and shot dead in Tonka’s Independence Square, in front of her family and hundreds of people. Mariam Cisse had over 95,000 followers on TikTok. Her videos often showed her smiling, dancing, or wearing Malian army outfits to show support for soldiers fighting jihadists. On Thursday, Mariam Cisse was live-streaming from a fair in
Who was Mariam Cisse? TikTok creator from Tonka brutally killed by armed extremists during livestream
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