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2021-05-31 Africa Subsaharan

Boko Haram militants kill 8 in southeastern Niger, says defence ministry

[WHBL] Insurgents from the Islamist group Boko Haram

... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
killed four soldiers and four civilians in an attack on Niger’s southeastern desert town of Diffa, the defence ministry said.

At least six holy warriors were killed in the raid on Friday, the ministry said in a statement on Saturday.

The gunnies attacked Diffa in the late afternoon, riding in about 15 vehicles. After intense fighting, they were pushed back by security forces,

The Boko Haram insurgency broke out in northeastern Nigeria in 2000, but violence frequently spills over into neighbouring Chad, Niger and Cameroon
...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there...
In December, an attack blamed on Boko Haram killed 28 people and burned 800 homes in Diffa region.

Al Ahram adds:

"The provisional toll is two gendarmes killed, one policeman killed and two gendarmes maimed," the statement said.

Three rebel bodies were found after soldiers pushed back the attack, destroying seven vehicles, it said.

The army recovered rocket launchers, a mortar and a large amount of ammunition as well as mobile phones, drugs and syringes, according to the statement. # id) ?>

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