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At least 40 Chadian soldiers have been killed after their base was attacked on Sunday evening, the presidency says.

President Mahamat Déby has ordered a counter-mission to track down the culprits, according to a statement from his office.

The attack reportedly happened on an island called Barkaram, in a vast marshy region that was once covered by the waters of Lake Chad before its dramatic shrinking in recent decades.

No suspects for Sunday's attack are named in the presidency's statement, but the area is close to the border zones of Nigeria and Niger where Islamist militants are known to operate.
Sunday's attack is one of the worst suffered by Chadian soldiers since 2020, when about 100 soldiers died in a raid which prompted then-President Idriss Déby to launch an operation against Islamist militants.

Local residents have told the AFP news agency they believe fighters from Boko Haram - an Islamist militant group based over the border in Nigeria - were to blame for this latest attack, and say at least 200 soldiers were stationed at the garrison at the time.

It is a blow to President Déby, who is an elite soldier by training, and the son of the former president who was killed three years ago in battle with rebels close to the Libyan border.

In its public communications the Chadian presidency has presented Déby as a hands-on leader with military nous, who visited the site of the attack early on Monday, "assessing the situation on the ground, paying his respects to the deceased soldiers, showing his comion to the wounded, and raising the morale of his brothers-in-arms"

The Lake Chad basin is bordered by Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria - all of which are part of a Multinational t Task Force that seeks to stamp out the armed groups operating in the region.
But Islamists "often regroup when troops withdraw", and better funding and planning is needed, says the International Crisis Group.

In recent years, there have been several coups in the region, in Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso. The military in each country cited the inability to deal with the Islamist militant threat as one of the reasons for the ouster of the civilian governments.

Analyst Paul Melly writes that, surrounded by so many regional crises, Chad stands out as an island of continued stable partnership with the West - and is now deepening relations with Russia in a ploy that irritates and pressures and the US.

Chad has also become a key conduit for arms flowing into Sudan, and is hosting large numbers of refugees from the country's civil war in camps near its eastern border.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz7wqqqvq2vo

This is sad, the security situation in Chad has worsen since the death of late president Idris Deby

Terrorists everywhere

Worldwide Population regulation on a large scale

I BLAME RUSSIA

Islamic terrorists at it again!

You can't but keep wondering what their definition of peace is.

Dont believe they achieved that without inside help (saboteurs) from the military.

Chai

EmperorCaesar:


Terrorists everywhere

Worldwide Population regulation on a large scale

Even nairaland isn't spared from government terrorism and it's disciples

Islamic terrorists on the beat.....


Terrorists sympathizers will still blame Israel and USA for this attack

Wherever there is the presence of God, the devil is around the corner not far away.

Terrorist sympathisers who are children of perdition will pretend not to see this post. Wait till they see isr..... and they start jumping like laboratory monkeys.

God1000:
This is sad, the security situation in Chad has worsen since the death of late president Idris Deby

Your fellow Islamic Terrorist that have been causing havoc all the world are the ones responsible.

Now you see why no Terrorist nation must not be pitied.

Their children are indoctrinated in the Terrorism way that as little as 12, they already started causing havocs.


Islam is a curse to the universe.

Buraitai is working

Shettima is working

Mattawale is working

Terrorism is a very big cancer to Africa

Islam and terror....pls don't quote me if u want to die young

Sigh... Yet Nigeria is still sleeping on this terrorism issue.

This should wake them up to sort out this agelong mess in the North, but nope, they will rather keeping fooling around.

Security and antiterrorism should never be politicised in any nation.

So unfortunate. Sounds like terror attack.

We need isreal in that region, they know how to Handle them

If they can discipline 200 soldiers on their own base... That one no be Boko Haram again. It is either sabotage or Westerners mistaking it as a terrorist base.

Who else other than the cowardice Islamic Jihadist militants.
Israel have started showing those in Iran some SHEGE.
I hope President Derby will also show those cowards hiding in the Lake Chad basin more SHEGE.
Those cowards deserves no mercy.
End them before they end you.

Damn they took a hit. RIP to the fallen soldiers

The end is near. Wars and rumors of wars

Analyst Paul Melly writes that, surrounded by so many regional crises, Chad stands out as an island of continued stable partnership with the West - and is now deepening relations with Russia in a ploy that irritates and pressures and the US.

Once you are a West African/Central African leader, and you start getting closer to Russia, emergency islamist fighters from all crannies of the desert will start to emerge, as they desperately trying to destabilise your government/country.

Chad soliders looks like terrorist. They sometimes wear turban and their uniforms doesn't always match like a real military unit.

Could be some Russians or USA that just cleaned them us (especially as the attackers didn't suffer casualties). Mistook them for terrorist.

EmperorCaesar:


Terrorists everywhere

Worldwide Population regulation on a large scale

as covid no work. Terrorists mode activated. 🤦‍♂️

MadPolitician:
Once you are a West African leader, and you start getting closer to Russia, emergency islamist fighters from all crannies of the desert will start to emerge desperately trying to destabilise yourgovernment/country.

SHAMEFUL ISLAMIST ARE INVOLVE. SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH THAT

african soldiers can be careless. very sorry.

osuofia2:

SHAMEFUL ISLAMIST ARE INVOLVE. SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH THAT

The socalled islamists are being used by foreigners. They don't know this because they're all blinded by raging hate. You read about ISIS calling on Hamas to release Isreali prisoners? That should tell you more about what's going on. I came to realise this after the late president of Yemen, accused Isreal of forming all those groups.

Because of their religious fanaticism and overzealousness, sophisticated intelligence agencies around the world, can easily use local proxies to recruit, train and finance them. Funny thing is that the country bankrolling the whole thing, might be a "Christian country". Most of them don't even know where the weapons they use for their massacres are coming from.

God1000:
This is sad, the security situation in Chad has worsen since the death of late president Idris Deby

Isn’t it same shit that killed the president?

NOwazobia:
Your fellow Islamic Terrorist that have been causing havoc all the world are the ones responsible.

Now you see why no Terrorist nation must not be pitied.

Their children are indoctrinated in the Terrorism way that as little as 12, they already started causing havocs.


Islam is a curse to the universe.

This what we saying, the countries affected by this blood thirsty Terrorist must fight them with anger, Terror must be met with higher terror , that is the only language this Muslim Terrorist understand and not tolerate them