Boko Haram Terrorists Kill 10 Chadian Soldiers Near Nigeria Border

At least ten  Chadian Soldiers were killed on Tuesday, by the Boko haram terrorists who attacked an army post in western Chad.

In a statement by the presidential spokesman Brah Mahamat.

According to him, “It was perpetrated “in the early morning” near Ngouboua, in the Lake Chad region, on the borders of Chad, Niger, Cameroon and Nigeria, where the jihadist groups Boko Haram and its dissident branch Islamic State in West Africa (Iswap) regularly attack armies and civilians in the four countries.

An army unit, “dispatched as a precursor to set up an outpost on the island of Bouka-Toullorom,” was “attacked by elements of the Boko Haram sect,” Mahamat said. The Chadian authorities indiscriminately call “Boko Haram” the group of the same name or the Iswap.

“The ten dead and wounded are all elements of the defense forces,” the spokesman said.

Lake Chad is a vast expanse of water and swamps dotted with hundreds of islets, some of which serve as hideouts for Boko Haram and Iswap jihadists.

Recalled 10 days ago the Chadian President, General Mahamat Idriss Déby said “Today, Boko Haram no longer has the strength to attack the barracks” in the lake area and is now targeting “the population and their property.”

Although Déby transitional government has vowed to more than double the size of its army by the end of 2022 to deal with security challenges, including threats from Islamist militants linked to al Qaeda and the Islamic State.

The Boko Haram insurgency, which erupted in northeast Nigeria in 2009, has killed more than 350,000 people and forced millions to flee their homes.