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Jihadists linked to the Islamic State have attacked a UN base and overrun a humanitarian hub in Borno, trapping 25 aid workers, security and humanitarian sources said. Scores of Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) fighters invaded the town of Dikwa in Borno state, dislodging troops from the military base and torching the humanitarian hub, a
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Jihadists killed at least three soldiers and two others were missing in an ambush on their convoy in northeast, military sources told AFP Saturday. Fighters from the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) opened fire on the convoy in Barwanti village in the Lake Chad area late Friday, after a landmine they had planted exploded
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Voters went to the polls in Niger on Sunday for an election that could seal a first peaceful handover between elected presidents, against the backdrop of a bloody jihadist insurgency. The West African country, unstable since gaining independence from France 60 years ago, is ranked the world’s poorest country according to the UN’s Human Development
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Niger voted in long-delayed municipal and regional elections Sunday the day after an attack by the Boko Haram jihadist group claimed at least 27 lives according to local officials, and two weeks ahead of a landmark presidential election. The vote had been postponed repeatedly because of jihadist attacks in parts of the poor Sahel country,
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Boko Haram fighters have killed three civilians in Cameroon’s far north bordering Nigeria, where the jihadist group has stepped up attacks, local officials said Friday. Three others were injured in the overnight raid in Assighassia, a town which has been the target of multiple attacks, Mahamat Chetima Abba, the traditional chief of the nearby Mozogo
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A court in Mali’s capital Bamako sentenced an Islamist militant leader and 14 other people to death on Friday for jihadist activity in the south of the war-torn Sahel state. “I don’t regret anything because our fight is against the secularism of the Malian state. If I had the opportunity, I would do it again,”
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Fourteen soldiers were killed after their patrol was ambushed in northern Burkina Faso in one of the worst attacks on the army during a five-year-old jihadist insurgency, the government said. The attack took place Wednesday in the country’s north, near the border with Mali and Niger, and came ahead of presidential and legislative elections on
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At least nine Nigerian troops were killed in an offensive by jihadists in northeast Borno state, two security sources said Wednesday. Fighters from the so-called Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) in 10 trucks fitted with machine guns overran a military position in the town of Magumeri late on Tuesday, killing nine troops, they said.
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Jihadists have ambushed a civilian convoy in Borno state, killing two people and injuring 15, militia sources said Friday. The gunmen opened fire as the convoy, under military escort, was heading to the town of Gamboru near the border with Cameroon late Thursday, they said. “The insurgents killed two civilians and seriously injured 15,” militia
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Pope Francis on Wednesday called the bishop of Mozambique’s city of Pemba, capital of the insurgency-hit Cabo Delgado province, to express support for his assistance to victims of recent violence, the bishop said. Government supporters last week accused Bishop Luiz Fernando Lisboa — a Brazilian national who heads the Muslim-majority province’s Catholic Church — of
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