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Africa Subsaharan
58 Boko Haram members to appear in court Thursday
2020-04-16
[PUNCHNG] Fifty-eight suspected Islamists, who were rounded up in a Chadian operation against 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...
, will be heard by a criminal court from Thursday, Justice Minister Djimet Arabi told AFP.

President Idriss Deby Itno asserted that Boko Haram snuffies were chased out of the country in the operation carried out between March 31 and April 8.

A Chadian army front man said at least 52 soldiers and 1,000 jihadists were killed during the operation, which was launched after a massive attack on an army base near Lake Chad that claimed the lives of around 100 soldiers.

Idriss warned his allies in the region that Chad’s army would no longer take part in operations outside the country.

The force, considered one of the best in the region, has fought Boko Haram in the Lake Chad region as part of the Joint Multinational Force with Nigeria, 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...
and Niger.

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