Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Niger: 600 with Boko Haram Links Arrested Since February

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Niger has detained and charged 643 people since February for their links to the Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram, Security Minister Hassoumi Massaoudou told parliament. Niger has deployed 3,000 soldiers to a joint regional force formed with Chad, Cameroon and Nigeria in order to quash the Boko Haram insurgency, in which thousands have been killed. Several Boko Haram networks and sleeper cells have been dismantled in Niger's southern Diffa region, which is on the border with...

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