More than 30 jihadists killed in air strikes, says the Nigerian army

The Nigeria army killed 35 jihadists in a series of air strikes near its northeast border with Cameroon, he said in a statement.

The strikes were carried out in four zones to thwart an attempt by the jihadists to attack the troops on the ground, added the army.

Nigeria has been fighting against jihadist groups for more than a decade, as well as violent criminal gangs, sectarian conflicts and generalized kidnappings for the ransom.

On Saturday, a group of eminent Nigerians, including former government ministers, businessmen and civil society activists, published a statement, which underlines that certain parts of Nigeria endured “the levels of the slaughter of the war”, while the country was officially in peace.

The group cited a report published in May by the AMNESTY International rights group, which said that at least 10,217 people had been killed since President Bola Tinubu had taken office two years ago.

He called for the formation of a presidential working group with large -scale powers to end the many conflicts – including the resurgence of the militant Islamist group Boko Haram and the Islamic State province of the Islamic State (ISWAP) in the northeast.

Last week, the army said they had killed nearly 600 activists in eight months in the region. There is no independent confirmation of the complaint.

The Nigerian Air Force said that it would continue to provide air coverage to the terrestrial troops with the jihadist bases in the northeast.

According to the UN.

The Institute for Security Studies Tank Tank said that at least 15 jihadist attacks had been recorded so far this year in regions near the Nigeria border with Cameroon and Niger.

The jihadists used modified commercial drones to strike in the bases of the army and made it difficult for the military to send reinforcements, he added.

Earlier this month, the US State Department approved the sale of weapons worth $ 346 million (256 million pounds sterling) in Nigeria.