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Niger: 14 civils tués dans une attaque près de la frontière malienne
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Niger: 14 civils tués dans une attaque près de la frontière malienne
Quatorze personnes ont été tuées dimanche au Niger dans une attaque à Banibangou (ouest), près de la frontière avec le Mali, une région où les civils sont régulièrement la cible de djihadistes présumés, a annoncé lundi soir le gouvernement nigérien.
«Cette attaque qui a ciblé des populations civiles fait état de quatorze morts dont neuf dans un champ, trois dans le dit village et deux sur leur chemin de retour (des champs). Un blessé a été évacué à l hôpital de Niamey», a précisé le ministère nigérien de l Intérieur dans un communiqué lu à la radio publique. Selon le ministère, l attaque menée par «des individus non e
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Last week in Africa, French and national military forces carried out operations targeting Islamic militants in the Central Sahel region; inter-ethnic and clan violence was reported in Somalia, Kenya, and Sudan; and mass demonstrations continued for a second week in South Africa.
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Mali, numerous attacks and abductions were reported in the Mopti and Segou regions, carried out by presumed Katiba Macina militants as well as Dan Na Ambassagou and Dozo militiamen. Deadly clashes also erupted between suspected Katiba Macina militants and Dozo hunters in Niono cercle of the Segou region. Elsewhere, presumed Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) militants carried out simultaneous mortar and rocket attacks against the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) and French Barkhane Operation and Malian troops. French military forces also targeted suspected
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One local elected official said “attackers on motorbikes killed at least 15 people around 3:30 pm (1430 GMT), four in the village of Danga-Zouani and four in the nearby village of Korombara. The others were killed in their fields.”
A senior local official spoke of “at least 10 people killed” by the motorbike raiders, some of them farmers sowing their fields, but added that the toll was “still provisional.”
“We have also been told that grain stores and huts were burned,” he said, adding that security forces had arrived to secure the area.
It was also the scene of a 2017 ambush in which four US special forces troops and five Nigerien soldiers died.
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