A military outpost in Niger's Diffa region that has long been a target of jihadist fighters came under major attack overnight, local sources said on Tuesday, with an unknown number of troops killed...
A military outpost in Niger’s Diffa region that has long been a target of jihadist fighters came under major attack overnight, local sources said on Tuesday, with an unknown number of troops killed.
A local elected official confirmed the attack by “gunmen, probably Boko Haram fighters”, adding that they left “many dead”. It shelters some 300,000 refugees from Nigeria as well as internally displaced people, according to UN figures.Several violent clashes have pitted the army against Islamist fighters in the region since the start of May.
A propaganda video released by the Islamic State West Africa Province, a Boko Haram splinter group affiliated to the so-called Islamic State, purported to show heavily armed insurgents storm an army camp following sustained fighting and heavy weapons fire on May 3.Boko Haram’s insurgency has claimed more than 36,000 lives since it began in northeastern Nigeria in 2009 and displaced nearly two million from their homes.
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