Viral video circulating shows suspected terrorist shooting down five persons believed to be humanitarian workers.

It is reported that the workers went missing and “were taken hostage by a non-state armed group in Borno State, northeast Nigeria, on June 8”.

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“It is with profound grief that we confirm the murder of Ishaku Yakubu, Action Against Hunger (ACF) staff member from Monguno, and four other aid workers,” the French-based aid group said.

“This unjustifiable killing reflects the immense difficulty faced by independent and impartial humanitarian actors, and the violence we are exposed to every day to fulfil our mission,” ACF said.

The 35 seconds long video showed five armed men in hoods standing behind five hostages who were kneeling.

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An unidentified voice, suspected to be their ring leader, spoke in Hausa saying;

“this is a message to the infidels who are using you to cheat and turn our people into unbelievers. You should know that your employers are just using you to achieve their aims, but they don’t care about you. That’s why whenever we abduct you, they don’t care about you.

“Our advice for you is that you should repent and turn to God, or else we shall continue to waylay and abduct you all in all the routes that you traverse.

“And if you don’t heed to our warning, what is about to happen to these five aid workers would also be fate that will befall you too.”

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Twelve Nigerien soldiers have lost their lives after a group of Boko Haram fighters launched an attack on their military post.

The attack occured in Niger’s Diffa region, which has been the scene of recent clashes with armed fighters.

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Ten soldiers were also reported injured in a statement issued by Niger’s Defence Ministry said in a statement.

The statement also added that the army gunned down at least seven of the attackers.

The base is some 20km northeast of Diffa town near Lake Chad where the borders of Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria converge.

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Several violent clashes have placed the army against armed fighters in the region since the start of May.

Last week, Niger said more than 70 Boko Haram fighters were killed in the southeast of the country across the border to Nigeria.    

Boko Haram launched its insurgency in north-east Nigeria some ten years ago. It sought to overthrow the Nigerian democracy and replace it with sharia law.

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The group’s deadly activities have claimed more than 36,000 lives since and displaced nearly two million people in the country.

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