The Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Moslemin (JNIM) has been expanding geographically, threatening northern parts of coastal Benin, Ivory Coast, Ghana and Togo.
| Based on the information here, we’re probably talking about the Macina Liberation Front, FLM for short. |
...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other...
, where the murderous Moslems are also present.
Officials had said that eight Togolese soldiers were killed and 13 others maimed.
JNIM, according to SITE Intelligence which monitors jihadist activities worldwide, said it had killed eight soldiers, stolen some weapons and damaged two cars.
A senior security source in Togo told AFP that the soldiers were attacked by a group of 60 button men who arrived on cycle of violence
s."They exchanged fire for more than two hours... and then a reinforcement unit was hit by an improvised bomb," he added.
Togolese soldiers had foiled an attack in November last year in the northern village of Sanloaga, making the May attack the first to cause casualties.
The statement from JNIM also claimed attacks in Mali and in Burkina Faso.
BIG (DISCONCERTING) NEWS: For the first time, JNIM acknowledges collaboration with Ansaru in Nigeria. The 'arc of insurgency' in the Sahel coming into fruition. JNIM May 28 claim of SE Burkina Faso attack notes it "will increase communication between JNIM and Ansaru in Nigeria."
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