President Idriss Deby has said Chadian troops will no longer participate in military operations outside the country's borders as part of national army campaigns against armed groups active in the Lake Chad region and the Sahel.

"Our troops have died for Lake Chad and the Sahel. From today, no Chadian soldiers will take part in a military mission outside Chad," he told national TV on Thursday.

Deby's remarks echoed frustration at perceived failures by allies to do more in the fight against armed groups, and came as Chadian armed forces ended a major offensive against Boko Haram in the Lake Chad region.

On Thursday, the army claimed that 1,000 fighters had been killed in the operation. Fifty-two of the army's troops were also killed.

The offensive was launched after at least 92 Chadian troops were killed in a Boko Haram raid on a base at Bohoma on March 23 - the biggest one-day military loss in the country's history.

The implications of Deby's remarks for Chad's wider military involvement were not immediately clear.

Lake Chad is a vast body of water where the borders of Niger, Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon meet. The western shores of the lake have been hit by fighters crossing from northeastern Nigeria, where Boko Haram launched an armed campaign in 2009.

The four countries bordering the lake moved in 2015 to 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 region, has shown frustration with the MNJTF following the Bohoma losses.

"Chad is alone in shouldering all the burden of the war against Boko Haram," Deby publicly complained last weekend.

Chadian troops are also part of the so-called G5 Sahel force - comprising soldiers from Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania and Niger, as well - fighting armed groups in the Sahel.

While announcing the end of the offensive, the army said on Thursday that its troops had expelled armed fighters from Chadian soil and had advanced deep into Niger and Nigeria.

Deby said that he had warned those countries that his forces would move out of bases seized there from Boko Haram by April 22, regardless of whether their armed forces moved in or not

Source:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/04/chad-stop-participating-regional-fight-armed-groups-200410182054049.html

I think Lalasticlala is on quarantine. Self Isolation and lockdown for allow am send this one to fp

Buharis incompetence really betrayed this man's commitment

Well... I can't blame him. His primary duty is to protect his own country

The real Boko Haram av threatened him

GamalNasser:
Buharis incompetence really betrayed this man's commitment

Its a big shame.

Our political cabals have warned them off!

Yenefer:
The real Boko Haram av threatened him

Threatened indeed...how much would our government give them to fight boko haram OUTSIDE their territory, as they have been doing in recent times? It would mean a waste of resources for them to to keep doing our job for us. Chad is a poor country. If buhari is really serious, he should engage Chadian troops to deal with boko haram.

It is not unexpected.

What's the essence of risking the lives of his soldiers to capture terrorists only to be rehabilitated, set free and possibly compensated with foreign education.

Who wouldn't wash off his hands in such circumstance?

After their embassy was forced to write a disclaimer

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... the unaware is against any attempt to fight Boko Haram

Only God knows why d man withdrew from joint border battle, I hope defence headquarter hv not threatened his men if he goes further to take credit on his side delivering blow against book haram

Idriss Deby obviously full of himself.

Buhari is a failure

Boko haram political financials at work.

Instead of continuing with the tempo.

Countries involved might be lazy.

Especially Nigerian Army that knows only how to repel attacks