Boko Haram: President Fires Defence Chief Over Killing Of Soldiers

Chadian President, Idriss Deby, has fired his chief of armed forces, Brahim Seid Mahamat, over the resurgence of Boko Haram attacks resulting in the killing of 23 soldiers.

The President dismissed the defence chief and two of his deputies by the presidential decree after six years in the post on Friday night.

This came just hours after the attack in the southwest of the country.

According to News Point, the soldiers were murdered after being ambushed by the jihadists in the early hours of Friday morning in the deadliest attack on the Chadian military by Boko Haram, which launched an insurgency in Nigeria ten years ago.

The tension has spread to the nearby country, Niger and Chad with the Boko Haram attack claiming more than 27,000 lives and displacing more than 1.7 million people.

The deadly Friday attack took place at Dangdala, on the northeastern bank of Lake Chad.

On Thursday the group carried out another attack which left not less than eight civilians dead at Karidi in southeastern Niger.