BENIN’S army has suffered heavy losses during an attack near the country’s border with Niger and Burkina Faso. National Guard chief of staff Colonel Faizou Gomina said on Thursday that one of the military’s positions in the Alibori region had been attacked the previous evening.

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Twenty-eight soldiers were killed in an attack in northern Benin, a security source told AFP on Thursday, as violence blamed on jihadists based in neighbouring countries increases.