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Boko Haram Fighters Launch Four Strikes On Lake Chad Area by TechWalker007(op): 11:42am On Dec 24, 2015
Suspected Boko Haram fighters launch four strikes on Lake Chad area

Source: Reuters - Wed, 23 Dec 2015 21:31 GMT
Author: Reuters
* Five killed in attack on Niger's border town

* Two killed in Cameroon bombing

* Three suicide blasts reported on Chad island

* More than 2 million displaced in fragile region (Adds Cameroon suicide bombing in paragraph 6)

By Madjiasra Nako and Abdoulaye Massalaki

N'DJAMENA/NIAMEY, Dec 23 (Reuters) - Suspected Boko Haram militants launched four attacks over 24 hours on villages in Niger, Chad and Cameroon, killing at least seven people, security and administrative sources said on Wednesday.

The Islamist militants are mostly based in northeastern Nigeria but have become a major threat to wider regional security by carrying out attacks in the lawless Lake Chad zone where the borders of Chad, Cameroon, Niger and Nigeria meet.

In the most deadly of three attacks since Tuesday, militants killed two soldiers and three civilians in Niger's southern border town of Abadam overnight, the sources said.

About 150 km (90 miles) east in Chad, three militants were killed when they detonated suicide bombs after being found out by a group of local people as they sought to embark from an island to a lakeside market in Bol. A fourth set off his bomb but survived.

"They were intercepted by villagers who wanted to search them and they resisted," said a local official who asked not to be named. Three other militants managed to shed the explosives they were carrying and swim away, he added.

A female suicide bomber blew herself up on Wednesday in the town of Nguetchewe in Cameroon's Far North Region, also killing a small girl accompanying her and a local resident.

In northern Cameroon, several suspected Boko Haram fighters attacked three food trucks near the Chadian border on Wednesday, officials said. Cameroonian Special Forces (BIR) arrived shortly afterwards and there were no deaths or injuries.

Boko Haram has killed tens of thousands of people and driven more than 2 million people to flee their homes during its six-year insurgency in one of the world's poorest regions.

Regional governments including Nigeria, Chad, Niger, Cameroon and Benin have pledged to destroy the group using an 8,700-strong regional task force. The United States has also sent troops to supply intelligence and other assistance.

But joint operations have yet to begin, leaving it up to national armies to tackle the group individually.

In the absence of effective coordination, security sources have warned this often means that soldiers just drive the militants across each other's borders.

Both Chad and Niger have declared a state of emergency for the regions of Lake Chad and Diffa respectively which have been hit by dozens of attacks this year.

Aid agencies say they often struggle to provide food and other support to the vulnerable local populations because of the security challenges. (Additional reporting by Josiane Kouagheu in Douala and Sylvain Anzongo in Yaounde; Writing by Emma Farge and Joe Bavier; Editing by Dominic Evans and Richard Balmforth)
http://www.trust.org/item/20151223121046-sqgr2/
Re: Boko Haram Fighters Launch Four Strikes On Lake Chad Area by chiboyo(m): 11:42am On Dec 24, 2015
I thought our minister of information said we have destroyed this guyshuh
Re: Boko Haram Fighters Launch Four Strikes On Lake Chad Area by Super1759: 11:42am On Dec 24, 2015
"Army Has Met December Deadline Of Defeating Boko Haram – Lai Mohammed"


Lie lie Mohammed
Re: Boko Haram Fighters Launch Four Strikes On Lake Chad Area by TechWalker007(op): 11:43am On Dec 24, 2015
According to Lai Mohammed, they have defeated Boko Haram.
Re: Boko Haram Fighters Launch Four Strikes On Lake Chad Area by fromnigeria(m): 11:47am On Dec 24, 2015
Chad is now part of Nigeria cheesy
Re: Boko Haram Fighters Launch Four Strikes On Lake Chad Area by Andykruiz(m): 11:48am On Dec 24, 2015
I hope LIE Mohammed is reading this.
Re: Boko Haram Fighters Launch Four Strikes On Lake Chad Area by yanabasee(m): 11:49am On Dec 24, 2015
They should better exercise their bombing outisde Nigeria... Becoz if they hit Nigeria again, then Lai mohammed have questions to answer!...
Re: Boko Haram Fighters Launch Four Strikes On Lake Chad Area by GHA1(m): 11:50am On Dec 24, 2015
I wonder why federal Government is deceiving the gullible masses of defecting a terrorist group, this group could not be defeated completely by mere forces except God intervene
Re: Boko Haram Fighters Launch Four Strikes On Lake Chad Area by suxkill: 12:05pm On Dec 24, 2015
Last warning 0p!!!



You've been warned by Lai Mohammed not to report any BH attack.cus the have meet the december deadline.



Lmao!!!
Re: Boko Haram Fighters Launch Four Strikes On Lake Chad Area by TechWalker007(op): 12:34pm On Dec 24, 2015
suxkill:
Last warning 0p!!!



You've been warned by Lai Mohammed not to report any BH attack.cus the have meet the december deadline.



Lmao!!!
It wasn't me they warned but Seun and Co. That's why this thread may never make Frontpage
Re: Boko Haram Fighters Launch Four Strikes On Lake Chad Area by Godjone(m): 12:50pm On Dec 24, 2015
Lie Muhammad where are you and ur stinking gutter u called mouth?
May boko haram visit you and ur likes this Xmas, Amen.
Shameless liar
Re: Boko Haram Fighters Launch Four Strikes On Lake Chad Area by suxkill: 10:07am On Dec 25, 2015
TechWalker007:
It wasn't me they warned but Seun and Co. That's why this thread may never make Frontpage
I concur
Re: Boko Haram Fighters Launch Four Strikes On Lake Chad Area by Herald47: 11:03am On Dec 25, 2015
[b][/b]boko haram 201
what is boko haram?
Re: Boko Haram Fighters Launch Four Strikes On Lake Chad Area by dafuturis(m): 12:10pm On Dec 25, 2015
Legion of illiterates abounds this thread
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