Six Nigerien soldiers protecting an oil pipeline to neighboring Benin were killed during an attack by “armed bandits” in the south of the country, Niger’s army said on June 16. “A patrol dedicated to securing the pipeline was attacked by armed bandits on the outskirts of the village of Salkam… unfortunately we deplore the deaths...

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