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Nov
26
2020
By The African Mirror
Suspected Boko Haram attack kills four Chadian soldiers

Suspected Boko Haram attack kills four Chadian soldiers

NEWS
MADJIASRA NAKO FOUR soldiers in southwest Chad were killed and dozens injured in an explosion on a boat thought to have been caused by an improvised bomb, a local official said on Wednesday, suggesting it was the work of Islamist group Boko Haram. Chad has suffered attacks on its soil from Nigeria-based Boko Haram since 2015. The jihadist insurgency first erupted in northeast Nigeria in 2009 before spreading into Chad, Niger and northern Cameroon, and killed more than 30,000 people. The blast occurred on Tuesday night on a boat travelling near Ngouboua, around 25 km (15 miles) from the Nigerian…
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Sep
27
2020
By The African Mirror
Suspected Islamists kill at least 11 in attack on convoy in northeast Nigeria

Suspected Islamists kill at least 11 in attack on convoy in northeast Nigeria

NEWS
SUSPECTED Islamist militants killed at least 11 people in northeastern Nigeria in an attack on a security convoy that was taking people displaced by an insurgency back to their homes, police and security sources said. Islamic State, to whom a breakaway faction of Nigerian militant group Boko Haram pledged allegiance in 2016, said on its Amaq news agency that 30 police officers and soldiers were killed in the attack on Friday on a road leading to the strategic fishing town of Baga in Borno state. In a statement on Saturday, Borno state police said eight police officers and three members…
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Sep
07
2020
By The African Mirror
Nigeria to deliver aid by air in conflict-hit northeast

Nigeria to deliver aid by air in conflict-hit northeast

NEWS
NIGERIA’S government plans to deliver humanitarian aid supplies by air to people in remote communities in parts of the northeast that have been ravaged by the decade-long Islamist insurgency spearheaded by Boko Haram. The insurgency, which since 2009 has killed around 35,000 people and forced two million people to flee their homes, has spawned one of the world's worst humanitarian crises. Seven million people need some form of aid, the United Nations estimates. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Humanitarian affairs minister Sadiya Umar Farouk on Sunday told reporters in Maiduguri, capital of the conflict-ravaged Borno state, that Nigerian Air Force helicopters and…
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Sep
03
2020
By The African Mirror
Seven killed in suicide bomb attack in northern Cameroon village

Seven killed in suicide bomb attack in northern Cameroon village

NEWS
AT least seven people were killed and 14 others wounded in a suicide bomb attack in a village hosting internally displaced people in Cameroon's Far North region, the second of such attack in a month, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said on Wednesday. The attack on Tuesday took place in Goldavi, close to the border with Nigeria, where some 18,000 people fleeing the violent insurgency, had sought refuge. "We are horrified by these senseless attacks on people who have been torn from their villages, fleeing violence perpetrated by armed gangs which rage in the region, only to be stripped of…
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Aug
09
2020
By The African Mirror
Gunmen kill six French tourists, two Nigeriens in Niger – governor

Gunmen kill six French tourists, two Nigeriens in Niger – governor

NEWS
GUNMEN on motorcycles have killed six French tourists and two Nigeriens in a wildlife park in Niger, a senior official said. The attackers struck in a giraffe reserve in the West African country's Kouré area, the governor of Tillaberi, Tidjani Ibrahim Katiella, told Reuters. The two Nigeriens were working as the tourists' guide and driver, AFP news agency reported. The French foreign ministry said it was making checks into reports of the attack. There was no immediate comment from the government in Niger. The French government warns people against travelling to large parts of Niger where militant groups including Boko…
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Aug
02
2020
By The African Mirror
Suspected Boko Haram militants kill 15 in northern Cameroon

Suspected Boko Haram militants kill 15 in northern Cameroon

NEWS
SUSPECTED  militants from Islamist group Boko Haram have killed 15 people and wounded six others in a grenade attack on a camp for displaced people in northern Cameroon, a security source and a local official told Reuters. In the early hours, assailants threw a grenade into a group of sleeping people inside the camp in the village of Nguetchewe, said district mayor, Medjeweh Boukar. The camp is home to around 800 people, he said. The village is located in the Mozogo district, close to the Nigerian border in the Far North region. Boukar was informed by residents that 15 had…
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