Africa
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Sep- 2019 -6 September
Burkina Faso soldier killed in Soum ambush
One Burkina Faso soldier and five assailants were killed in an ambush on an army patrol in Diomsogui in Soum province in the Sahel region
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5 September
ISIS claims Nigeria soldiers killed in Gajiram attack
ISIS claimed ISWAP fighters killed 10 Nigerian soldiers in an attack on a military base in Gajiram in the Lake Chad area of Borno state
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5 September
Nigeria repatriates 3 orphan children of ISIS adherents in northeast Syria
Three orphans born to Nigerian Islamic State adherents were handed over to Nigerian officials in northeast Syria
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3 September
UN chief Guterres warns of ‘continental scale’ terrorism in Africa
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres highlighted the threat of cross-border terrorism in Africa, warning that the ADF is linked to groups across the continent
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3 September
Guterres again calls for UN to fund G5 Sahel counter-terrorism force
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres again pushed for funding for the G5 Sahel force, warning "we are not winning the war against terrorism"
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Aug- 2019 -31 August
Nigeria soldiers killed in ISWAP ambush near Monguno
Eight Nigerian soldiers were killed near Monguno in the Lake Chad area of Borno state in an ambush blamed on Islamic State West Africa Province
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28 August
Nigeria: ISWAP blamed for killing construction workers in Wajirko
ISWAP insurgents were blamed for killing 11 construction workers in the village of Wajirko in Borno state in northeast Nigeria
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27 August
Chad court jails 243 rebels over incursion from Libya in February
Chad jailed to 243 rebels who crossed into the northeast of the country from Libya in February before their incursion was halted by French air strikes
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19 August
Nigeria soldiers ambushed in Mogula near Cameroon border
Four Nigerian troops were killed in an ambush in Borno state carried out by fighters suspected to be from Islamic State West Africa Province
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15 August
‘Boko Haram’ attacks Nigeria military base in Molai, near Maiduguri
Three Nigerian soldiers were killed during a gun battle with insurgents in a village on the outskirts of Borno state capital Maiduguri
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