Agando Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/agando/ The low down on African affairs Wed, 11 Dec 2019 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Agando Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/agando/ 32 32 73 soldiers die in Niger’s deadliest rebel attack in living memory https://jjcornish.com/2019/12/73-soldiers-die-in-nigers-deadliest-rebel-attack-in-living-memory/ Wed, 11 Dec 2019 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2019/12/73-soldiers-die-in-nigers-deadliest-rebel-attack-in-living-memory/ Another Africa leader has, like President Cyril Ramaphosa, cut short a visit to Egypt to attend to a domestic crisis. President Mahamadou Issoufou of Niger has raced to home to deal with a deadliest  rebel attack on his country in living memory. A military spokesman in Niger says 73 soldiers were killed in yesterday’s  attack […]

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President Mahamadou Issoufou of Niger has raced to home to deal with a deadliest  rebel attack on his country in living memory.

A military spokesman in Niger says 73 soldiers were killed in yesterday’s  attack on a base in Inates near the border with Mali.

It follows an attack in Agando, also in the west of the country, on Monday that left four soldiers and 14 rebels dead.

The military spokesman say several hundred attackers were involved and they sustained heavy casualties.

French President Emmanuel Macron has called a meeting in Pau, southwestern France next week of the G5 Sahel group to which Niger belongs with Mali, Mauritania, Chad and Burkina Faso.  

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