Posted on 11/25/2020 7:44:07 PM PST by xomething
N’DJAMENA (Reuters) - Four soldiers in southwest Chad were killed and dozens injured in an explosion on a boat thought to have been caused by an improvised bomb, a local official said on Wednesday, suggesting it was the work of Islamist group Boko Haram.
Chad has suffered attacks on its soil from Nigeria-based Boko Haram since 2015. The jihadist insurgency first erupted in northeast Nigeria in 2009 before spreading into Chad, Niger and northern Cameroon, and killed more than 30,000 people.
The blast occurred on Tuesday night on a boat travelling near Ngouboua, around 25 km (15 miles) from the Nigerian border, said Dimoya Souapebe, a district administrator in the town of Baga Sola.
“The explosive device was placed at the bottom of the boat,” he said. “We are trying to find out if this is a new technique of Boko Haram.”
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Make Boko Harum Harum.
they’re military has to just go full bore after these animals....SPJNK.
Have they done this before?
If no, then it is new..
The Nigerian, Chadian, etc. militaries are weak and faction-riveted. Also there are deep forests that Boko Haram hides in and finally BH are supported by many local Muslims, so can melt into the populace
Boko Haram has the job of expanding Muslim territory through ethnic cleansing of non Muslims.
The only solution is to go after the Muslim populations which harbor them.
Which is a sensible thing to do!
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