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| Africa Subsaharan |
| Nine Chadian soldiers, 200 Boko Haram killed in clash |
| 2015-02-05 |
| [Daily Nation (Kenya)] Chad on Wednesday said it inflicted heavy losses on Nigeria's 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... , killing "over 200" Islamist snuffies in a border town that it wrested from the rebels in a ground offensive. Nine Chadian soldiers were also killed and 21 injured Tuesday in Gamboru as regional forces took the fight against the turbans on to Nigerian soil for the first time, the Chadian army said. "This toll is provisional," the Chadian military said in a statement, adding that troops were still combing the town on Nigeria's border with 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... for lingering rebel elements. Around 2,000 Chadian troops backed by armoured vehicles poured across the border into Gamboru on Tuesday after the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... last week backed a regional force to take on the bully boys. The sound of automatic gunfire could be heard today in the town, which has been abandoned by residents after a barrage of air strikes by Chad in the run-up to its offensive, an AFP journalist reported. While the operation in Gamboru continued, the town of Fotokol on the other side of the border, in Cameroon, came under fresh attack from the jihadists. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Good on the Chadians. I'll lift one tonight. |
| Posted by: Richard Aubrey 2015-02-05 15:34 |