Nearly 140 people have been killed in ongoing attacks on villages in western Niger. A Nigerian government spokesman on Monday said 137 people had been killed in attacks in the Tahoe region on the border with Mali.
The government will strengthen security in the region and bring to justice “the perpetrators of these cowardly and criminal acts.” Within a week, more than 200 people had been killed in attacks in the region.
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A spokesman continued on television that the government would apply for the first three days on Tuesday. The AFP news agency previously learned from a local MP that jihadists had gone on motorcycles on Sunday and “shot anything moving”.
On March 15, 66 people were killed in a similar attack, and on January 2, about a hundred others. The attacks took place in a triangle formed by Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso. This area is often frequented by jihadists.
The attacks pose the biggest challenge to the new head of state in Niger, Mohammed Pasum, whose election was confirmed by the Constitutional Court on Sunday. On Twitter, the short news service, Pasoom condemned the “barbaric” attacks on “peace-loving” civilians.
1200 soldiers from the Chad area were stationed in the border triangle. G-5 Sahel Group United Nations – Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger and Chad – have been working together against jihadi groups since 2017 More than 5,100 soldiers from Bargan, a French military operation sent to the Sahel region, are also involved in the fighting. (AFP)
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