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Africa Subsaharan
Fighting in Niger kills 5 soldiers, 30 Boko Haram militants
2016-09-15
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Niger’s defense ministry says at least five soldiers and 30 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...
bandidos faceless myrmidons have been killed after an ambush by the Nigeria-based Islamic turbans led to fighting.

Col. Moustapha Michel Ledru said the attack on soldiers Monday near Toumour, about 65 kilometers (40 miles) northeast of the town of Diffa, also injured six soldiers.

He spoke Tuesday night on national television, saying the army captured two turbans along with a large quantity of arms and ammunition.

Ledru also said two soldiers were killed Sept. 8 when their vehicle hit an improvised bomb during a patrol near Barwa locality in the Diffa region.

Boko Haram has been launching attacks across Nigeria’s borders into Niger, Chad 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...
, which contribute to a multinational force that seeks to counter it.

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