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Added on the 13/05/2020 18:15:48 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Amateur video purports to show Boko Haram fighters clashing with soldiers in southeast Niger's Bosso town. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
Chad blames Boko Haram for twin bombings that killed at least 27 people and injured more than 100 in the capital N'Djamena on Monday. It was the first attack of its kind in the country. Nathan Frandino reports.
Chadian and Niger soldiers take control of northern Nigerian town of Damasak after killing more than 200 Boko Haram militants. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
Abuja, Nigeria (CNN) At least seven people were killed in a Boko Haram attack on the majority-Christian village of Pemi in Nigeria's Borno state on Christmas Eve, a local official said. "Boko Haram attacked Pemi village, killed seven people and abducted another seven, including a pastor," Kachallah Usman, secretary of the Chibok local government area, told CNN on Friday. "They also burned down a church, a dispensary and several houses," he added. Audu Chiwar, a former secretary of the Chibok community in Abuja, told CNN he received a call on Thursday from a local resident reporting that gunmen had opened fire in the village.
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).