[REUTERS] Niger security forces killed 57 members of Islamist bad boy group 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...
who attacked a village in the southeastern Diffa region overnight, the defense ministry said in a statement on Monday.
Fifteen soldiers and two civilians were maimed during the attack by heavily gunnies in Gueskerou village, which is around 30 km (22 miles) northeast of Diffa town, it said.
"Among the enemy there were 57
Boko Haram has killed 15,000 people and displaced more than two million during a seven-year insurgency aimed at creating an Islamic state in Nigeria. A regional force that includes troops from Niger has retaken much of its territory in the last two years.
In recent years its attacks have spilled into neighboring Niger, 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...
and Chad.