Niamey, March 13, 2019 – Niger said Wednesday it had killed 33 Boko Haram “terrorists” and seized vehicles and weapons in an operation in the Lake Chad region in the country’s southeast. “Thirty-three terrorists (were) killed” while there were no losses on the army’s side, it said. Diffa borders the birthplace of Boko Haram in northeastern Nigeria and has suffered a string of cross-border raids and population displacement. An estimated 27,000 people have been killed and two million others displaced since Boko Haram launched its insurgency in 2009. On February 16, seven Nigerien soldiers were killed in an attack on the border village of Chetima Wangou.

Source: The North Africa Journal March 13, 2019 11:37 UTC