 Welcome back to News Now, plus TV Africa. Niger's Defense Ministry says hundreds of Boko Haram militants have attacked a military post in southern region overnight, killing 16 soldiers and wounding nine more. In a statement, the military said about 50 of the Islamist militants were killed in result in combat in the West African country's Defa region, and significant quantities of weapons were recovered. The Boko Haram insurgency broke out in northeastern Nigeria in 2009, but violence frequently spills over into neighboring Chad, Niger and Cameroon in the Lake Chad Basin.