Inmates escape Niger prison holding militants

[Kenz]

Niger and its neighbors in the central Sahel region are on the frontlines of the battle to contain a jihadist threat that has steadily grown since 2012.
Bertrand Guay/AFP/Getty Images/File
Reuters —
Niger’s interior ministry said it had ordered search units to be on alert after inmates escaped on Thursday from the high-security Koutoukale prison whose inmates include Islamist militants.
The ministry statement did not say how many prisoners had escaped Koutoukale, which lies 50 km (30 miles) northwest of the capital Niamey, or how they had done so. In 2016 and 2019, attempted jail breaks at the facility were repelled.

 

[goodknight]

Niger and its neighbors in the central Sahel region are on the frontlines of the battle to contain a jihadist threat that has steadily grown since 2012.
Bertrand Guay/AFP/Getty Images/File
Reuters —
Niger’s interior ministry said it had ordered search units to be on alert after inmates escaped on Thursday from the high-security Koutoukale prison whose inmates include Islamist militants.
The ministry statement did not say how many prisoners had escaped Koutoukale, which lies 50 km (30 miles) northwest of the capital Niamey, or how they had done so. In 2016 and 2019, attempted jail breaks at the facility were repelled.

Big oof in Niger - militants just broke out of high-security prison!