Ever-present Boko Haram threat casts shadow in Niger
Ever-present Boko Haram threat casts shadow in Niger AFP 12/26/2020 AFP © Issouf SANOGO Among the poorest countries in the world, Niger, which is holding presidential elections on Sunday, faces jihadist groups from the Sahel in the west and Boko Haram in the east Seven years after the first Boko Haram attacks in southeastern Niger, people in the city of Diffa, dare not even speak the group's name. Residents live in a state of siege, frightened and struggling with the economic impact of the Islamist threat. For fear of reprisals, people speak of "insecurity", of the "probl...
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