" While we were fighting the coronavirus, the Boko Haram enlightened people attacked our armed forces." In late March, an angry tweet, Idriss Deby was annoyed that the epidemic had in no way stopped the war against the jihadists. No one, and especially not the Chadian president, had really imagined that the call for a truce by the UN secretary general, Antonio Guterres, would be heard by Boko Haram. But to think that the country was going to experience one of the toughest battles of recent years ...
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On Monday March 23, the group launched the largest offensive in Chad. At dawn, jihadists attacked the Boma military camp, a peninsula on Lake Chad. This complicated region, made of an interlacing of earth and water, is a stronghold of the group. The raid is powerful and coordinated while the Chadian barracks does not house second-rate men. The fighting is very intense. The reinforced armored column gets bogged down and is in turn taken to task. After seven
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