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The Economic Community of West African State (ECOWAS) has asked the military leaders of the Republic of Niger to restore constitutional power to ousted President Mohamed Bazoum and focus on the fragile security in the country as their main duty.
The West African bloc said this in a statement issued on Wednesday in Abuja, Nigeria's capital, while reacting to the reported killing of 17 Niger soldiers on Tuesday in a jihadist ambush in the country.
The Nigerien Defence Ministry in a statement on Tuesday said that an army detachment was “the victim of a terrorist ambush near the town of Koutougou” in the Tillaberi region near Burkina Faso, adding that 20 other soldiers were wounded and that all the casualties had been evacuated to the country’s capital, Niamey.
The Nigerien army however said that more than 100 of the assailants who were travelling on motorbikes, were “neutralized” during their retreat.
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At least 17 Niger soldiers were killed in an attack by suspected jihadists near the border with Mali, AFP News Agency reports.
This was disclosed in a statement released by the country's Defence Ministry, adding that another 20 soldiers were maimed during the clash near the town of Koudougou.
SaharaReporters earlier reported how no fewer than six Niger soldiers and 10 suspected hard boyz were confirmed to have been killed during fighting in the west of the country, on Sunday,
A statement by the National Guard High Command, on Sunday, reported by The DailyStar, said that suspected Islamic jihadists on cycle of violence
s ambushed the troops near the western town of Sanam. In the ensuing battle, six soldiers died and 10 hard boyz were neutralised.
Sanam is in the Tillaberi tri-border area where Niger meets Mali and 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...
, a region where jihadist attacks are common.
On August 9, five soldiers were killed in an attack in the same area, according to the military regime that has been in power since the overthrow of President Mohammed Bazoum on July 26.
The army detachment was "the victim of a terrorist ambush near the town of Koutougou", said a ministry statement published late Tuesday.
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