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2023-10-18 Africa North
Niger: 6 soldiers killed in fighting near Burkina
[AFRICANEWS] Six soldiers and 31 "terrorists" were killed in fighting on Sunday and Monday in the Téra zone, in western Niger near 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 used to be Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and was chased out in 2014. Now it's the usual army officer type guy, Captain Ibrahim Traore, running things, who's just doing a bang-up job unless he's already been deposed...
, the Nigerien Defense Ministry said on Tuesday.

"From Sunday October 15 to Monday October 16, 2023, the Defense and Security Forces (FDS) of Operation Niya on a mop-up mission had a series of festivities with terrorist elements in the Lemdou area 50 km to the north -west of Téra", explains the ministry in a blurb sent to AFP.

"Six soldiers died" and 18 others, injured, were evacuated to Niamey, specifies the military regime which came to power in a coup at the end of July.

Nigerien soldiers "reacted with bravery" by "routing the enemy" and killing "31 terrorists", he assures, a toll which could not be confirmed from an independent source.

The fighting took place in the Tillabéri region (west), in the middle of the so-called "three borders" zone between Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali , which has become a hideout for Sahelian jihadists affiliated with al-Qaeda and the EIGS.

In recent weeks, several attacks have devastated Niger in this area, destabilized by jihadists for several years.

The heaviest corpse count was recorded at the beginning of October with 29 soldiers killed in a "complex attack" by suspected jihadists northwest of Tabatol, a town near Mali.

At the end of September, 16 soldiers were killed in another attack in the town of Kandadji and in mid-August, at least 17 soldiers died near the border with Burkina.

Niger has been governed since July 26 by a military regime that came to power in a coup that overthrew elected President Mohammed Bazoum .

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