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| At least nine people killed in attack on refugee in Niger |
| 2023-02-06 |
| [HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] At least nine people were killed last Wednesday in an attack led by "heavily armed terrorists" on a Malian refugee camp in western Niger, neighboring Mali. French Press Agency on Saturday quoted a local official as saying "the attack resulted in nine deaths, one person was maimed, and six people are missing." He added that the attack targeted a Malian refugee camp near a town located 65 kilometers northwest of Tilea, in the Tahoua region on the border with Mali, on the evening of February 1. "The heavily armed gunnies arrived on about ten cycle of violences, stormed the camp and opened fire before fleeing to Mali," the official said. Tahoua and Tillaberi are located in the border area between Burkina Faso ...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... , Mali and Niger, and they are two large unstable regions that have witnessed since 2017 criminal acts committed by gangs linked to al-Qaeda and ISIS. |
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