A young TikTok star has has been brutally executed by suspected jihadists during a livestream as her family watched.

Mariam Cisse, a 22-year-old who had amassed over 100,000 followers online, , is said to have been abducted from a small town in the Timbuktu region of Mali last week. It is claimed she was snatched at a local fair in Tonka. Her kidnappers claimed she was collaborating with the Malian army by sharing their movements online.

The forces has been battling jihadist groups since 2012. The country is currently going through a concerning fuel blockade imposed on the capital of Bamako by the jihadist group that has disrupted daily life. A days after her kidnapping, she was taken by motorbike and to Independence Square.

In front of hundreds of people, including her family, she was

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