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Chad and Niger have launched a joint army operation against Boko Haram militants in Nigeria, military sources said, stepping up a regional push to end the Sunni Muslim group’s six-year insurgency.
Boko Haram has expanded cross-border raids into Cameroon, Chad and Niger in recent months. This has spurred Nigeria’s neighbours to retaliate, although cooperation between them and Abuja has been limited and at times strained.
Coordinated multiple bomb blasts, separately detonated by three suspected female Boko Haram suicide bombers, Saturday, rocked the Maiduguri Monday Market (MMM), Borno Express Terminus motor park and Baga road fish market, killing 55 people and injuring 86 others within an hour.
This came as the Nigerian Army through a signed statement announced the recovery of two more local governments from the insurgents.
There are no more rebel weapons in Eastern Ukraine’s front line, the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic claims.
According to Aleksandar Zakharchenko, who heads the “Republic”, the heavy arms have been “fully removed” under a ceasefire deal agreed in Minsk, Belarus, in February.
Boko Haram militants, have pledged allegiance to Islamic State, according to a message on the group’s Twitter account.
The message, which could not immediately be verified, appeared to be by the group’s leader, Abu Bakr bin Mohammed Shekau, who addressed himself as the Imam of Jamaátu Ahlus Sunnah Lidda’awati Wal Jihad (Boko Haram) and was addressed to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi al-Husseini al-Qurashi, the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) or Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
The terrorists continue to provoke the Armed Forces of Ukraine in order to sabotage the Minsk agreements.
Thus, the militants violated the truce for about 14 times from 8 p.m. (March 6) till 6 a.m. (March 7), Censor.NET reports referring to the ATO press center.