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Jilli, after the airstrike

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April 11, 2026, started as a normal day for traders and residents of Jilli community. But the day turned gloomy as over 280 people were feared killed in an airstrike in a remote desert market in Borno State.
Deep inside the vast and unforgiving Sahara Desert, along the volatile border between Borno and Yobe states in northeastern Nigeria, a remote trading settlement known as Jilli was reduced to ruins in a single day.
What was once a lifeline market for scattered desert communities, a place wher

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