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| How Niger, Chadian troops recaptured Malam Fatori |
The black letters crudely painted on a wall at the entrance to the devastated town of Malam Fatori, in northeast Nigeria, spell out “Allah is great” — a calling card from the evicted Boko Haram fighters.
Niger and Chadian army troops, working together in support of Nigerian forces, recaptured the town on Tuesday to find grocery stores vandalised, smoke-blackened walls and motorbikes and wheelbarrows lying abandoned on the ground.
