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  IS-linked jihadists attack humanitarian facilities in Nigeria

  Agence France-Presse . Kano | Updated at 11:44am on April 11, 2021

  Islamic State-linked jihadists in Nigeria attacked humanitarian facilities in the restive northeastern town of Damasak, aid workers told AFP on Saturday...

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  12 beheaded in Mozambique attack in March: security sources

  Agence France-Presse . Maputo | Updated at 03:36pm on April 10, 2021

  Twelve decapitated bodies were found after a jihadist raid on the Mozambique town of Palma last month, strewn in front of a hotel where dozens...

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  Thirteen killed in western Niger attacks

  Agence France-Presse . Niamey | Updated at 11:26am on March 26, 2021

  Thirteen people were killed in western Niger when armed men on motorbikes raided three villages near the Malian border, local officials said, warning of an...

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  137 killed in Niger’s deadliest suspected jihadist massacre

  Agence France-Presse . Niamey | Updated at 10:15am on March 23, 2021

  Scores of people have died in the deadliest suspected jihadist massacre ever to hit Niger, the government said on Monday, underscoring the huge security challenge...

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  At least 11 Iraqi soldiers killed in IS-backed jihadist attack

  Agence France-Presse . Samarra | Updated at 11:02am on January 24, 2021

  At least 11 fighters from Iraq’s state-sponsored Hashed al-Shaabi force were killed in an ambush by the Islamic State group north of the capital on...

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  ‘Many’ civilians killed in Niger gun attack

  Agence France-Presse . Niamey | Updated at 10:50am on January 03, 2021

  Gunmen killed a significant number of civilians in Niger on Saturday, authorities said, in the latest attack to rock the landlocked Sahel nation’s troubled western...

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  Tunisia to take back citizens from France on condition

  Agence France-Presse . Tunis | Updated at 10:38am on November 07, 2020

  Tunisia said on Friday that it would take back from France its citizens suspected of being radical Islamists, after last week’s attack in Nice allegedly...

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  Egypt army says killed over 70 jihadists in North Sinai

  Agence France-Presse. Cairo | Updated at 10:25am on August 31, 2020

  Egypt's army announced Sunday that more than 70 alleged jihadists have been killed in recent military operations in North Sinai, the location of an insurrection...

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  IS jihadists kill six people in attack on Nigeria town

  Agence France-Presse . Kano, Nigeria | Updated at 04:54pm on June 14, 2020

  Jihadists linked to the Islamic State group killed six people on Saturday in an assault on a strategic garrison town in restive northeast Nigeria, security...

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  At least 59 villagers killed in Nigeria Jihadist attack

  Agence France-Presse . Kano, Nigeria | Updated at 11:09am on June 10, 2020

  Fighters from an Islamic State-linked jihadist group on Tuesday killed 59 people in a raid on a herding village in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state, local...