Chad Takes Out 1000 Jihadis

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Sadly, Chad lost 52 soldiers.

Chad army says 52 troops, 1,000 jihadists killed in offensive

AFP • April 9, 2020

N’Djamena (AFP) – The Chadian army said Thursday it had wound up an offensive against Boko Haram jihadists in the Lake Chad border region in which 52 troops and 1,000 jihadists were killed.

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Army spokesman Colonel Azem Bermendoa Agouna told AFP that the operation, launched after nearly 100 soldiers were killed last month, ended Wednesday after the Nigerian jihadists were forced out of the country.

“A thousand terrorists have been killed, 50 motorised canoes have been destroyed,” he said, referring to a large boat also called a pirogue.

It is the first official snapshot of the outcome of Operation Bohoma Anger, launched after Chad’s armed forces suffered their biggest one-day loss in their history.

Lake Chad is a vast, marshy body of water where the borders of Niger, Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon meet.

The western shores of the lake have been hit by jihadists crossing from northeastern Nigeria, where Boko Haram launched a bloody campaign of violence in 2009.

On March 23, jihadists mounted a deadly seven-hour assault on a Chadian army base at Bohoma, killing at least 98 troops, according to an official toll.

Chad declared departments near the lake “a war zone” in order to give the military free rein for the offensive.

The four countries bordering the lake on 2015 set up a formation called the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF), also including Benin, to fight Boko Haram.

But Chad, whose forces have a relatively high standing in the Sahel, has shown frustration with the MNJTF following the Bohoma losses.

“Chad is alone in shouldering all the burden of the war against Boko Haram,” President Idriss Deby Itno complained last weekend.

“I met the commander of the MNJTF and asked him to take over.”

Boko Haram’s 11-year-old campaign has claimed tens of thousands of lives in northeast Nigeria and driven nearly two million people from their homes.

Separately, in Niger, the defence ministry in Niamey said its armed forces, in a joint operation with Chad, had inflicted “heavy losses” on Boko Haram in the lake region.

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jerrys
jerrys
3 years ago

GOOD NEWS

allie
allie
3 years ago

These are the people we should be helping they really are fighting ISIS, we should cut off all aid to Turkey, Erdogan is helping ISIS, send the aid and advisors here instead, wipe these vermin out.

MAS
MAS
3 years ago

Sounds 3rd world exaggerated battle stats to me…

Commieobamie
Commieobamie
3 years ago

Only good jihadi is a dead jihadi. lots of good jihadi’s’ there.

Kputt
Kputt
3 years ago

Why do the Africans not have a strong more and more needed “NATO”-styled body, which is able, to finish and eliminate such islamic inhuman satanic armys? The UN is and never will be able at all, to stop/end such terror.
They advance everywhere now in whole over Africa and could soon be a big danger – even to civilized world, due the fact, that our natural ressources once will be reduced and we will have to be depending among others, on Africa. Another solution should or could be, the completely freezing of any “help” for such organized terrorgangs.
However, condolence to any terror-related victim – as now the 52 dead soldiers of the Chad.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
3 years ago
Reply to  Kputt

North Africa is, for all intents and purposes, muslum owned and controlled.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
3 years ago

What’s disgusting is the AFP article doesn’t mention that it’s Nigerian Christians who are being slaughtered and ethnically cleansed or that they’re being deliberately targeted BECAUSE they’re Christian by f’ing muslums.

Daniel FX Dravot
Daniel FX Dravot
3 years ago

We should defend Islam to the last drop of Muslim blood.

Bikinis not Burkas
Bikinis not Burkas
3 years ago

The perfect man, NOT, defective DNA.
Muhammad was WHITE!
http://quranx.com/Hadith/Muslim/Reference/Hadith-2340/
Muhammad was a dwarf and fat!
http://sunnah.com/abudawud/42/154

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