FILE - In this May 12, 2014 file image from video by Nigeria's Boko Haram terrorist network shows their leader Abubakar Shekau speaks to the camera. The leader of Nigerias Islamic extremist group Boko Haram denied agreeing to any cease-fire with the government and said more than 200 kidnapped schoolgirls all have converted to Islam and been married off. In a new video released late Friday, Oct. 31, 2014, Abubakar Shekau dashed hopes for a prisoner exchange to get the girls released. The issue of the girls is long forgotten because I have long ago married them off, he said, laughing. In this war, there is no going back. (AP Photo/File)
(Reuters) – Niger’s forces killed 109 fighters from the Islamist militant group Boko Haram on Friday as they repulsed attacks on the southeastern town of Bosso, near the Nigerian border, Niger state television said.
FILE – In this May 12, 2014 file image from video by Nigeria’s Boko Haram terrorist network shows their leader Abubakar Shekau speaks to the camera. The leader of Nigerias Islamic extremist group Boko Haram denied agreeing to any cease-fire with the government and said more than 200 kidnapped schoolgirls all have converted to Islam and been married off. In a new video released late Friday, Oct. 31, 2014, Abubakar Shekau dashed hopes for a prisoner exchange to get the girls released. The issue of the girls is long forgotten because I have long ago married them off, he said, laughing. In this war, there is no going back. (AP Photo/File)
Four soldiers from Niger were killed in the fighting against Boko Haram, whose insurgency is spreading from Nigeria to neighboring states.
(Reporting by Abdoulaye Massalaki; Writing by Matthew Mpoke Bigg; Editing by Kevin Liffey)