N’Djamena, March 22, 2019 – Twenty-three soldiers were killed in southwestern Chad on Friday when they came under attack from Boko Haram jihadists, a military official told AFP. “Boko Haram elements attacked the Chadian army position at around 1 am, killing 23 troops,” the official said. It is the deadliest attack on the Chadian military by Boko Haram, a jihadist group which launched an insurgency in Nigeria nearly 10 years ago that has spread to neighboring Niger and Chad. The Boko Haram revolt has claimed more than 27,000 lives and uprooted more than 1.7 million people. Troops from Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria have been grouped into a mixed, multi-national force to fight Boko Haram.

Source: The North Africa Journal March 23, 2019 03:56 UTC