Niger: Borgu residents flee homes, question security strategies as attacks persist

Communities successful Borgu Local Government Area of Niger State person go a shadiness of their erstwhile selves pursuing persistent attacks by equipped men, DAILY POST reports.  

According to residents, repeated attacks person forced villagers to wantonness their homes and farms, portion immoderate person crossed into neighbouring Benin Republic.

The latest attack, successful which Muslim worshippers were abducted during Jumu’at prayers, has heightened fears among residents, who accidental they are nary longer assured astir returning to their communities.

DAILY POST recalls that suspected terrorists invaded Dekara, Gidan-Zana and Kpenya communities connected Friday, August 21, 2026, during Jumu’at prayers and simultaneously abducted an unspecified fig of worshippers.

The constabulary person yet to found the nonstop fig of those abducted.

The bid said it was moving with assemblage members and section vigilantes to find the fig due to the fact that of the hard terrain and the dispersed of the affected communities.

Different figures person emerged since the attack.

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