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Niger: Several regions experiencing severe flooding, dozens killedF

Heavy rains lashing arid Niger since June have killed 35 people and made more than 26,500 homeless, the civil protection agency said Saturday. Twenty people died in house collapses, 15 drowned and 24 were injured, a statement said. A total of 26,532 people had to...
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Sahel: Another attack in SW Niger at border with Burkina FasoF

Fifteen soldiers have been killed and six more are missing after a "terrorist" attack in southwest Niger, near the border with Burkina Faso, the defence ministry announced Sunday. The soldiers were first ambushed and later hit by an improvised explosive device as they...
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Niger: Civilians, soldiers and armed attackers killed in Tillaberi clashF

Five civilians, four soldiers and 40 armed attackers were killed Sunday in a clash in Niger's restive southwest region near the border with Mali, the government said. Around 100 heavily armed "terrorists" riding motorcycles attacked the Tchoma Bangou village, striking...
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Sahel: Despite announcing troop drawdown plan, France insists it will not leave the SahelF

France to start closing military bases in Mali by year-end President Emmanuel Macron said Friday that France would start closing its bases in northern Mali before the end of the year, part of a drawdown of French troops fighting Islamist extremists in the Sahel. "The...
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