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Niger: the army killed around thirty "terrorists" who fled Nigeria

2023-03-15T11:13:18.783Z


The Nigerien army last week killed "around thirty terrorists" from the jihadist group Boko Haram and arrested 960 other people, including...


The Nigerian army last week killed "

about thirty terrorists

" from the jihadist group Boko Haram and arrested 960 other people, including women and children, who had fled neighboring Nigeria, AFP learned on Wednesday from official sources.

A military aerial reconnaissance made it possible to observe on March 7 "

a massive movement of individuals

" along the Komadougou Yobé river - marking the border between Niger and Nigeria - in the direction of Lake Chad, said Tuesday evening public television Télé Sahel.

Aerial images of columns of people walking in the bush or swimming across a stream were picked up on television and broadcast on Wednesday on the sites of the Nigerien Ministry of Defense and the Presidency.

According to the report, they were members of Boko Haram coming from the Sambissa forest in northeastern Nigeria and traveling to the Nigerian Lake Islands to flee heavy fighting with their Islamic State rivals in Africa. of the West (Iswap).

"

An operation was launched

" and "

about thirty terrorists were neutralized

" before "

the enemy could reach Lake Chad

", according to Télé Sahel.

Negotiations failed

Before launching the assault on March 11 around 6 a.m. (5 a.m. Paris time), the army had tried “

unsuccessfully

” to “

negotiate a surrender without bloodshed

” via emissaries and the dropping of leaflets.

In addition, 960 people, "

mostly women and children

" were arrested between March 7 and March 11 and transferred to Diffa, the big city in south-eastern Niger, where they were taken care of before being be handed over to Nigerian military authorities, state television said.

"

A large number of Boko Haram members fleeing the Sambissa forest were intercepted last week by the military on the Nigerian border and were then handed over to the Nigerian authorities," an elected official from Toumour told AFP

. locality near the town of Bosso, bordering Lake Chad.

Without specifying the number, another elected official affirmed that “

many

” others “

are going to (the islands) of the Lake, particularly groups of women and children in pitiful conditions

”.

The Lake Chad basin, which stretches its shores between Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon and Chad, is a vast expanse of water and swamps where the jihadist groups Boko Haram and Iswap have established hideouts in the countless islets of the pool.

Niger, Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon launched in July 2015 the Multinational Mixed Force (MMF), of 8,500 men, to fight against armed jihadist groups.

Source: lefigaro

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