Rome, March 22, 2021 – It is 137 dead the budget of jihadist attacks scored in Niger. Armed men yesterday stormed the villages of Intazayene, Bakorat and Akifaki, in the region of Tahoua, causing the worst jihadist massacre ever committed in the country. Armed men arrived on motorbikes, attacked the three villages near the border with Mali, shooting “anything that moved,” a local official said.
The new massacre of civilians marks a further worsening of security conditions in the border area with Mali, where various terrorist groups operate, in particular the Islamic State in the Great Sahara. A tension that has exacerbated inter-community conflicts and whose management will constitute one of the top priorities of the newly elected head of state Mohamed Bazoum.
“By systematically treating civilian populations as targets, these armed bandits have gone one step closer to horror and brutality,” the government spokesman said. Zakaria Abdourahamane in a statement on public television. The government has declared three days of national mourning. The poorest nation in the world, according to the United Nations development rankings, is also forced to struggle with the attacks of jihadists from Mali and Nigeria.
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