Seven suspected “terrorists” have been reported killed and a few 30 alleged accomplices of the Boko Haram jihadist group arrested over the previous two weeks in south-eastern Niger.
In its weekly bulletin on army operations, Niger’s Defence Ministry stated the seven suspects have been killed within the city of Gueskerou, close to the Nigerian border.
The military additionally reportedly dismantled kidnapping gangs in N’Guigmi, additional north and close to the Chadian border.
The weekly report added that the military had, on 9 September, intercepted 30 overseas nationals transporting items for collaborators with the Boko Haram jihadist group.
🔴🔴🔴#FAN 🪖🪖🪖 BULLETIN DES #OPERATIONS N°0024/2022. pic.twitter.com/XG1luC7itB— Forces Armées Nigériennes (@ArmeesNiger) September 15, 2022
Six folks described as “Boko Haram accomplices” have been additionally arrested throughout a army offensive near the Lake Chad basin, a strategic space the place the borders of 4 nations converge – Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria.
The Niger military gave no particulars of these arrested, however native sources declare they have been Nigerian nationals.
Environ 2 100 personnes auraient quitté l’ancien website des personnes déplacées de Kablewa #Diffa, selon une évaluation qui a permis aux acteurs humanitaires d’avoir des données probantes sur les besoins urgents et le nombre de déplacés. Lire plus 👉https://t.co/VPJh6dIDZ2— OCHA NIGER (@OCHA_Niger) September 10, 2022
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Hundreds displaced by ‘non-state armed teams’
In the meantime, the UN Office for Humanitarian Affairs in Niamey reported the motion of greater than 2,000 displaced folks – largely ladies and youngsters – from the islands of Lake Chad to secure areas after “threats from non-state armed teams”.
The world’s poorest nation by the benchmark of the UN’s Human Growth Index, Niger has been hit laborious by the jihadist insurgency across the Sahel that started in northern Mali in 2012.
Niger can be going through an insurgency on its southeastern frontier with Nigeria – a marketing campaign launched by the infamous Boko Haram islamist group.
Of late, Boko Haram fighters have rounded up Nigerian fishermen, abducting some and killing others, on Niger’s aspect of Lake Chad.
Northeast Nigeria has been consumed by a 13-year jihadist insurgency that has killed greater than 40,000 folks and displaced round two million extra.