guise they are highly unstable region known as the 3 borders area because of its proximity to mali burkina faso and beneath. well i'm ready to receive is in the capital of. a and joins us now ahmed what do we know about these attacks. well the attacks happen saturday early saturday morning and officially confirming to us that in one of the villages more than 50 people civilians actually y. killed he said there was also an attack on a 2nd village but he cannot confirm the number of casualties in that particular village and they believe here is that the attackers came in across the border from mali and that is one of the most porous areas of nisha the border with mali and bricking apostle have seen numerous attacks in the past one year and there are but there is there is not feeling that this will continue to mullins and the official in practice telling us that there is no a military or security personnel killed in that attack what you saying is that they are sending a high powered delegation expected to reach that border town of border villages by early morning tomorrow to assess the situation t

a highly unstable region it's known as the 3 borders area before because of its proximity to mali burkina faso and binny was staying in the share no candidate has won a majority in the 1st round of the country's presidential election that means the 2 leading contenders will face each other in a runoff next month's bazoo mohamed a close ally of outgoing president imho will do so for one just under 40 percent of the vote. tensions between the united states and they ran remain high on the eve of the 1st anniversary of the assassination of the iranian general kassim city money commemorations are being held in the iraqi capital baghdad to mark the anniversary iranian leaders are vowing revenge and promising their policies will not change washington in tehran have been accusing each other of escalating military tensions so let money was killed in a u.s. drone strike near the baghdad airport last year charles strafford has more now from back that. well certainly at the moment there is what's being described as a commemoration ceremony at the site where that assassination took place close to baghdad a

the officials are telling us that they suspect these armed groups infiltrating charitra from mali and burkina faso as being responsible but that area has also been an area that is seen by a less into coming of violence that has led to governance of the last year and right now the defense minister is on his way to say to assess the situation we were told that dozens of people dozens of victims have been hospitalized because of their injuries some of the injuries very serious or some officials saying that some of those with serious injuries a few of them may not survive because of the severity of their injuries now these the government here is hoping that this could be contained before it gets worse a lot of people who are really really concerned that they would have seen this violence during the election period during the campaign period but fortunately enough for many citizens here and the government as well there has been a few incidents of violence in violent incidents but that affected nisha during the last 3 weeks or so right now we are we are hearing that the minister is going to make a publi

happened in monk a highly unstable region known as 3 borders area because of its proximity to mali burkina faso and the binyamin well i've made that. we're hoping to speak to him a little later he is in the capital of share for us with the latest on that but remembering that new share was also in the news because the presidential election has failed to produce an out right to win another of the 30 hopefuls got more than 50 percent of the whole vote has more on that story after 10 strive to wait. commission to a verdict. that no political party was able to pass the few 50 percent threshold enough votes to avoid a runoff. this is. all representatives of the political parties the declaration to the constitutional court which has the power to validate it and only say the $1000000.00 vote difference between the frontrunner on the run up out of $5000000.00 votes cast was both expected and deserved. the results show that frontrunner. campaigned hard to all nukes in the corners of new jersey and while the opposition was listing its time on the courts seeking to disqualify him his citizenship is suspect

before the general elections 7 soldiers were killed in fighting in the border region between mali and burkina faso. has endured a series of attacks by groups including nigeria. i saw and. thousands of people have been killed and hundreds of thousands displaced by the presence of thousands of regional and international troops while i'm groups in the region pose a growing threat to the west african countries expected to see its 1st democratic transition of power since 1960 following last month's elections. according to results announced from saturday a 2nd round will be needed after none of the 30 candidates won a majority. wherever the winner use would likely be dealing with more attacks like this how many priests al-jazeera and the army. in a recording that leaked to the public u.s. president donald trump told the top election official in the state of georgia to find enough votes in order to overturn his election defeat there georgia was one of the battleground states that flipped in favor of president elect joe biden it's an unprecedented move by sitting president and with just a few weeks to go