Islamic State said on Saturday it killed ten Nigerian soldiers in an attack on Thursday in the country’s north-eastern Borno state, but a Nigerian Army spokesman says “no such incident was recorded.”In a statement issued through its news agency Amaq, Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack two days ago on a village it referred to as Tdmari, near Maiduguri town. The Nigerian Army spokesman insists the “situation in the north east has been calm for some time now and is consolidating its efforts and successes are being achieved.”Islamic State in West Africa (ISWA), which split from Islamist group Boko Haram in 2016, has carried out a number of attacks in northeast Nigeria in the last few months. Borno state is the state worst hit by Islamist insurgents whose attacks on Nigerian military bases in the last few months made security a key issue in a just concluded presidential election won by incumbent Muhammadu Buhari.

Source: The North Africa Journal March 03, 2019 14:26 UTC