Niger’s government has extended a state of emergency to the entire region that surrounds the capital Niamey and suspended access to a giraffe reserve where six French aid workers and two Nigeriens were shot dead
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France has 5,100 troops deployed in the arid region south of the Sahara desert, but violence by jihadists linked to Islamic State and al Qaeda continues to rise. The state of emergency empowers the government to impose security restrictions such as curfews and bans on the circulation of motorcyles, the jihadists’ most common means of transport.
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