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Africa Subsaharan
Boko Haram militants kill 23 Chad soldiers: Security sources
2019-03-23
[AlAhram] 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...
hard boyz killed at least 23 Chadian soldiers overnight, Chadian security sources said on Friday, in what appeared to be the deadliest such attack inside Chad by the Islamist bully boys.

Boko Haram has been fighting for a decade to carve an Islamist caliphate out of northeast Nigeria
... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border...
, and has carried out regular raids over loosely guarded borders into neighbouring Chad, Niger and Cameroon
...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there...
Friday's attack occurred in the town of Dangdala, near the banks of Lake Chad, two security sources told Rooters.

One of them added that the assailants were believed to have crossed the frontier from Niger before attacking Chadian soldiers around 1:25 a.m. (0025 GMT).

An army front man declined to comment.

Chadian soldiers are part of a U.S.-trained West African task force deployed to counter Boko Haram. The violence over the past decade has killed more than 30,000 people and forced about 2 million to leave their homes.
Deutsche Welle adds:
Security sources said the militants were believed to have made off with military equipment.
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