The combined team of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF), Nigerian Army and Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) have dealt a devastating blow on the terrorists’ camp at Tumbum Regos in Lake Chad, POLITICS NIGERIA reports.
Lake Chad is located in the far west of Chad and the northeast of Nigeria. Parts of the lake also extend to Niger and Cameroon.
This newspaper learnt that several terrorists were eliminated in the aftermath of the heat of the intense onslaught at Marte in Borno state on Thursday. 34 terrorists were neutralised while nine soldiers sustained injuries when they ran into Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) planted by the terrorists.
It has been two decades since Mohammed Yusuf founded the group that became known as Boko Haram, and over a decade since its violent attacks reached the scale of an insurgency.
Numerous events during this time have caused the group to evolve, including its split in 2012 and spread throughout the Lake Chad Basin (LCB) region in 2013. These changes have had varying effects on the crisis and the governments’ ability to find lasting solutions.
Major developments in 2021 modified the conflict’s trajectory. These included the death of Abubakar Shekau (leader of Boko Haram faction JAS – Jama’at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da’wah wa’l-Jihad), the rise of Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP – another Boko Haram faction), and the resulting desertions of disaffected members.
