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2021-08-09 Africa Subsaharan

26 Chadian troops killed in suspected jihadist attack

[NATION.PK] At least 26 Chadian soldiers were killed in an attack by bully boyz in the troubled Lake Chad region, a senior local official said on Thursday. "Twenty-six members of the Chadian army fell on the field of honour, 14 others have been maimed, including eight seriously," the army’s front man General Azem Bermandoa Agouna told AFP.

"Several gunnies were neutralised and clean-up operations continue," he added. The region’s deputy prefect, Haki Djiddi, told AFP earlier that 24 soldiers were killed on Wednesday when Boko Haram

... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
attacked them when they were resting after returning from patrol. Mahamat Idriss Deby, president of the military transition council since his father died in April during fighting with rebels, said the stakes are high. The soldiers’ deaths "recall the security challenges we are still facing in a part of our borders," Deby said.

"The heavy toll that we pay in this asymmetric war is bitter but it will not be in vain," he said. "We will make the terrorist hydra capitulate," he said.

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