According to the Ministry of Defense, the attackers aimed on Monday a police station in the west of the country, near the border with Burkina Faso. Seven of them were killed by the armed forces.
Le Monde
Two Nigerian police officers were killed in a “terrorist” attack on a police station in Tamou (west), a city close to Burkina Faso, the Deputy Ministry of Niger announced on Tuesday 25 October. Seven of the attackers were killed and 24 others injured in the aerial, in particular air, army in response to this attack on this attack on Monday, specifies the ministry’s press release.
She targeted a Tamou police station, chief town of a commune in southwest Niger located in the Tillabéri region. “Military material” was swept away by the attackers during the attack, continues the text.
A first attack had already targeted a mixed, police and forest agents in the same city of Tamou on Saturday, notes the press release. This attack had not made a victim, according to a local source attached by the France-Presse agency (AFP).
an area listed as a UNESCO World Heritage
Tamou is close to the W national park, straddling the Niger-Burkina Faso-Bénin borders. This tourist area has been registered on the UNESCO World Heritage List since 1996. Now considered a high -risk region, it is not recommended by Western Chancellery.
Last Saturday, at least eleven civilians were killed in western Niger during several attacks by alleged jihadists in Banibangou, another commune in the Tillabéri region, near Mali this time.
This immense and unstable region is located in the “Three borders” area on the borders of Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali. It has been the theater since 2017 of bloody actions of jihadist groups linked to Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group (IS) since 2017.
The authorities launched several vast operations to the Malian border to fight against the jihadists with recent support, as part of a “combat partnership”, 250 French soldiers.
Niger is faced with terrorist violence on several sides of its territory. In the south-east, near Nigeria and Lake Chad, Boko Haram and its dissident branch Iswap (Islamic State in West Africa) regularly commit attacks against civilians and rapid ransoms. Finally, the border area between northern Benin and southern Niger, hitherto spared, has in turn confronted for a few months with the jihadist threat.