On 2 November 2021, gunmen of the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara ambushed a delegation being held by the mayor of Bani-Bangou in the village of Adab-Dab, Niger.
[1] Niger has had a jihadist insurgency since 2015, when Islamist groups from Mali began to spread their influence into the country.
Since then, the "tri-border" area between Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso has been the epicenter for jihadism.
[5] After the attack, the perpetrators fled to Mali, taking the bodies of dead fighters with them.
[2] 69 people were killed during the attack, including Bani-Bangou's mayor and the leader of a local self-defense militia,[6] and only 15 survived, several of them wounded.