Togo’s security minister General Damehame Yark has confirmed that about 15 assailants were killed during a “terrorist” attack last week in the north of Togo that also left eight soldiers dead.
Togo’s troops are deployed in the north of the country to try and contain a jihadist threat pushing south from Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger where militants are linked to Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group operate.
In the early hours of May 11, about 60 gunmen on motorcycles launched a “violent terrorist attack” on a military post in Kpinkankandi — near the border with Burkina Faso — killing eight Togolese soldiers and wounding 13, the government said at the time.
