NIAMEY, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) -- Niger's Defense and Security Forces (FDS) has said it lost five soldiers on Feb. 19 in a terrorist ambush in Sakoira in the country's western region of Tillabery.

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NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — A national committee to chart Niger’s future proposed Thursday that the junta-ruled country return to civilian administration in five years under new rules that strictly ...