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France, West Africa to unite forces in fight against Islamist militants
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- Published on Wednesday, 15 January 2020 09:59
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France and five West African states agreed on Monday to combine their military forces under one command structure to fight a growing Islamist militancy in the Sahel region, with Paris committing an extra 220 troops.
Four soldiers 'killed by Boko Haram' at Lake Chad base
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- Published on Thursday, 05 December 2019 11:18
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Suspected Boko Haram jihadists killed four Chadian troops early on Monday in a newly established military outpost on Lake Chad, the military and local officials said.
Boko Haram has training camps on several of the islands that dot the vast, shallow Lake Chad, which straddles the borders of Nigeria, Niger and Cameroon as well as Chad.
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Niger army base attack death toll rises to at least 89 -security sources
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- Published on Monday, 13 January 2020 10:10
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The death toll from Thursday’s attack by suspected jihadists on a Niger army base has risen to at least 89, four security sources said, surpassing a raid last month that killed 71 soldiers as the deadliest against Nigerien forces in years.
The government said on Thursday that 25 soldiers were killed, according to a provisional death toll, while…
Majority of French support country's Mali military operation -poll
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- Published on Tuesday, 03 December 2019 07:24
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Fifty-eight percent of French people back the country’s military operations in Mali, despite last week’s army helicopter crash that resulted in the deaths of 13 troops, said a survey on Monday.
“The level of support from French people remains very stable,” said Jerome Fourquet, who helped carry out the survey for Ifop, which was published in La…