The Nigerien Army recently thwarted an attack by Boko Haram extremists at a military post in Blabrine, Diffa region, southeastern Niger. Boko Haram, a Nigerian jihadist terrorist organization, has been responsible for numerous attacks targeting Christians as part of their insurgency in the Lake Chad region In this confrontation, forty suspected members of Boko Haram […]
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