Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“Gunmen on motorbikes have shot dead 22 people, most of them attending a baptism ceremony, in an attack on a village in western Niger, reports say. A resident told the French news agency AFP that 15 people were killed at the ceremony in Tillabéri region, which borders Mali and Burkina Faso, before moving elsewhere and killing seven others. … Niger’s military government has struggled to contain jihadist violence in the region, carried out by groups linked to al-Qaeda and Islamic State.” (09/17/25)