source: Menastream; Actu (Niger)
actor1: JNIM: Group for Support of Islam and Muslims and/or Islamic State (Greater Sahara)
actor2: Military Forces of Niger (2011-2021)
location: Boni
notes: On January 12, four Nigerien soldiers were killed and nine others wounded in two separate IED explosions that respectively struck an army pickup truck and an armored vehicle in the area of Boni near the Burkina Faso border, the IEDs were most likely planted by JNIM and/or ISGS militants.