File: The Boko Haram jihadist group launched an insurgency in northeast Nigeria in 2009 that in 2015 spilt into Niger. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
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It was not clear if the attack overnight Monday-Tuesday near the village of Kokoloukou, in Tillaberi region bordering Burkina Faso, was the work of jihadists or armed bandits.
