Islamist militants killed 71 soldiers in an attack on a remote military camp in Niger near the border with Mali, an army spokesman said, in the deadliest raid against the Nigerien military in living memory.Jihadists with links to Islamic State and al-Qaeda have mounted increasingly lethal attacks across West Africa’s Sahel region this year despite the commitment of thousands of regional and foreign troops to counter them.The violence has hit Mali and Burkina Faso the hardest, rendering large…
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