Benin suffers heavy losses in deadly border attack

Benin’s military has suffered significant casualties in a deadly attack near the insurgency-hit borders with Niger and Burkina Faso, officials have confirmed.

Colonel Faizou Gomina, chief of staff for the National Guard, described the Wednesday evening assault on one of the country’s most fortified military positions as a “very hard blow.”

While the perpetrators remain unidentified, Benin has faced increasing attacks in its northern…