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Chad Troops leave Nigeria, Deployed Along the border

Chadian authority has ended a month-long mission of fighting Boko Haram in Nigeria and the country has redeployed its 1,200 troops across the border on Friday.

They will be “deployed in the Lake Chad region to strengthen security along the border,” a senior local official told AFP.

Those troops have now pulled back across the border to be “deployed in the Lake Chad region to strengthen security along the border,” a senior local official told AFP.

“It’s our troops who went to aid Nigerian soldiers months ago returning home. They have finished their mission,” Colonel Azem Bermandoa told AFP.

“None of our soldiers remains, in Nigeria,” he added, without specifying whether they might be replaced following Friday’s pullout.

“Those who have come back will return to their sector at Lake Chad,” Bermandoa said.

Attacks by Boko Haram insurgents since 2009 in Nigeria has caused more than 50,000 people to have been killed, millions flee from their homes and thousands held hostage by the terrorists since the conflict began.

The violence has also spilled into neighbouring Cameroon, Chad and Niger, which has prompted the formation of a regional military coalition, the G5 Sahel force, to fight the armed group.

At least 14 people were killed and 13 still missing in December, after an attack on a fishing village in eastern Chad.

Last year, President Emmanuel Macron of French postponed a key summit focusing on France’s military operation in the Sahel region until the beginning of this year, after rebel fighters killed at least 71 soldiers in Niger in early December.

 

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