This comes as US and UN military experts probe Somali pirates helping Islamist terrorists in the violence-torn country.

US Africa command spokesman Mark Cheadle says two US helicopters were used in what he calls an advise and assist operation.

He says several Al Shabaab operatives were killed but did not provide  specific numbers.

United States and United Nations experts are investigating Somali pirates arming and assisting Al Shabaab and Al Qaeda terrorists.

The pundits say this cooperation could explain a recent spike in piracy off the Horn Africa after years of relative calm enforced by a NATO presence.

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Several dozen people are reported killed with vehicles and motor cycles carrying the jihadis destroyed.

As Nigeria runs up to elections, its neighbours have pitched in to help fight the Islamist terror group that forced them to delay the poll by six weeks.

The aerial strike by Chadian forces was aimed at making the border town of Djaboullam another in the line of settlements recaptured from Boko Haram that seized an area the size of Belgium in its bid to establish a caliphate in the north east of the country.

Boko Haram fighters have been using Nigerian border town to lob mortars into Niger.

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan maintains the combined forces will drive the Islamists out within a month.

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