Chad’s Army said that it had killed nearly 300 Boko Haram militants and lost 27 Army employees in a four-month campaign against the jihadist group that ended on Tuesday (February 20, 2025).
President Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno ordered the campaign in October after a Boko Haram attack on a base in the Lake Chad region killed 40 troops, according to an official toll released at the time.
Chad is one of four countries around Lake Chad battling Boko Haram and its allies over the past decade after the group’s insurgency in Nigeria spilt over. The conflict has left 40,000 dead across the four nations and caused two million people to flee their homes.
Military spokesperson General Chanane Issakha Acheik told a press briefing that “297 terrorists” had been killed in Operation Haskanite and the Army had lost 24 soldiers and three civilians. He said the operation was now over.
Published – February 19, 2025 12:17 pm IST
