Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) has condemned the recent killings of a pregnant woman and her husband in Aziko community, Bayelsa State. The group which accused the Fulani terrorists for being responsible for the ugly incident, insisting that the incident would mark the end of jihadists in Biafra land. In a statement issued by the
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Jihadists aligned with the Islamic State group have killed five security personnel, including two soldiers, in three separate attacks in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state, sources said Wednesday. In the first attack on Monday, fighters from the Islamic State West Africa (ISWAP) jihadist group aboard trucks attacked a military post in Tungushe village near the state
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An armed group attacked a police post in northern Benin near the frontier with Burkina Faso, where several jihadist groups operate, leaving at least one officer wounded, police and residents said on Sunday. It was the first such assault against security forces in Benin which borders three West African countries battling a growing jihadist insurgency.
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Five people were killed in an overnight attack by jihadists in the Lake Chad region of northern Cameroon, sources said on Wednesday. “Five civilians were killed by Boko Haram in Blaram,” a village in the Blangoua district of Cameroon’s Far North region, a local official said. The toll was confirmed to AFP by an army
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Nineteen members of the security forces died and five were wounded on Sunday in a major assault by suspected jihadists at a military camp in central Mali, the army said. “The provisional toll is 19 dead, five wounded,” Malian Armed Forces said on Twitter. A local lawmaker said all those killed at Sokolo military camp
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