A “dozen troopers” had been killed Tuesday by jihadists who attacked a military publish in western Chad, a presidential spokesman informed AFP.

The assault additionally precipitated “accidents”, stated in an announcement Brah Mahamat.

It was perpetrated “within the early morning” close to Ngouboua, within the Lake Chad area, on the borders of Chad, Niger, Cameroon and Nigeria, the place the jihadist teams Boko Haram and its dissident department Islamic State in West Africa (Iswap) repeatedly assault armies and civilians within the 4 nations.

A military unit, “dispatched as a precursor to arrange an outpost on the island of Bouka-Toullorom,” was “attacked by components of the Boko Haram sect,” Mahamat stated. The Chadian authorities indiscriminately name “Boko Haram” the group of the identical title or the Iswap.

“The ten lifeless and wounded are all components of the protection forces,” the spokesman informed AFP.

Lake Chad is an unlimited expanse of water and swamps dotted with a whole bunch of islets, a few of which function hideouts for Boko Haram and Iswap jihadists.

“As we speak, Boko Haram now not has the energy to assault the barracks” within the lake space and is now focusing on “the inhabitants and their property,” stated Chadian President Common Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno 10 days in the past whereas touring within the space. 

His transitional authorities has vowed to greater than double the scale of its military by the top of 2022 to cope with safety challenges, together with threats from Islamist militants linked to al Qaeda and the Islamic State.

The Boko Haram insurgency, which erupted in northeast Nigeria in 2009, has killed greater than 350,000 individuals and compelled thousands and thousands to flee their houses.