Around 100 people were killed by “terrorists” attacking two villages in western Niger, the local mayor said Sunday, the latest in a string of civilian massacres that have rocked the jihadist-plagued Tillaberi region. [more to come]Gunmen killed a significant number of civilians in Niger on Saturday, authorities said, in the latest attack to rock the landlocked Sahel nation’s troubled western Tillaberi region. A local official said “many civilians were killed” in the attack on Tchomo-Bangou, a village near the Mali border, but did not give details. The vast and unstable Tillaberi region is located in the so-called tri-border area, a jihadist-plagued zone where the porous borders of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso converge. Seven Nigerien soldiers were killed in an ambush in Tillaberi on December 21.

Source: The North Africa Journal January 03, 2021 16:30 UTC