2024-05-22 23:31:34
About twenty individuals have been killed in an assault carried out by “armed Berlin” firstly of the week in a village within the Niger after an assault”>Tillabéri area, close to Mali, Nigerian public radio introduced on Wednesday.
“Tillabéri area (…) was in mourning after an assault by an armed bandit on Monday Might 20, 2024, an assault that sadly resulted within the lack of about twenty individuals,” Nigerien public radio La Voix du Sahel.
The radio doesn’t specify the circumstances of the bloodbath, nevertheless it exhibits that it occurred within the village of Djambala, on nationwide street number one, about thirty kilometers from Tillabéri, the massive metropolis within the south-east of Niger, positioned 100 km from the capital Niamey.
Among the many victims are girls and kids, in response to data posted by individuals within the space on social networks.
Niger has been the goal of normal jihadist assaults for nearly a decade, in several elements of its territory.
It has been led since July 2023 by a navy regime led by Basic Abdourahamane Tiani, who overthrew the elected President Mohamed Bazoum.
Tillabéri is an enormous and unstable area with an space of 100,000 km2, positioned within the so-called “three border” zone between Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali.
Thought-about a den of armed jihadist teams working within the three international locations, this area has been the scene of bloody actions by these teams linked to Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State since 2017: it has been positioned beneath a state of emergency since then.
The assaults proceed regardless of the huge deployment of anti-jihadist forces.
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