Jihadists kill 71 soldiers in mass attack: Niger military
Islamist militants killed 71 soldiers in an attack on a remote military camp in Niger near the border with Mali, an army spokesman said on Wednesday, in the deadliest raid against the Nigerien military in living memory.
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Number of terror attacks in Niger continues to rise in the past year along within nearby Mali and Burkina Faso. Combined with tit for tat massacres by nomadic groups and farming communities in these countries, the next decade for this region will likely be as violent or even more than the last seven years.