Nigeria: des jihadistes tuent huit soldats nigérians dans le nord-est
A raid by jihadists affiliated with the Islamic State group against a military base in Borno State, in northeastern Nigeria, left eight Nigerian soldiers dead and 23 wounded, three security sources told AFP on Wednesday.
Around 70 motorcycle fighters from the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) attacked a military base in the village of Cross Kauwa, near the fishing town of Baga in the Lake Chad region, resulting in a firefight, security sources said.
"Eight soldiers paid the ultimate price and 23 others were wounded," a military officer said of the attack that occurred on Monday.
The jihadists mobilized from their camp on Dabar Masara Island in Lake Chad and took a long detour to attack the base, explained two members of anti-jihadist militias supporting the army, giving the same death toll.
"The terrorists set fire to the base as well as eleven armed trucks and took away the anti-aircraft guns that were installed there," one of them said.
Recently, ISWAP and its rival Boko Haram have intensified their attacks against military bases in the northeast.
According to the army, jihadists carried out two separate attacks against bases in Borno State last weekend, resulting in deaths and injuries among soldiers and anti-jihadist militias.
On Saturday night, ISWAP attacked a base in Mandaragirau, near the jihadist enclave in the Sambisa Forest, killing and wounding an undetermined number of soldiers and anti-jihadist militiamen, the army said in a statement.
And Boko Haram, for its part, targeted another base in Pulka, near the border with Cameroon, resulting in the destruction of military equipment and housing before the attack was repelled with the help of reinforcements, according to the statement.
Since 2009, jihadist violence has caused more than 40,000 deaths and approximately two million displaced persons in the northeast of the country.
The conflict has spread to neighboring Niger, Chad and Cameroon, prompting the formation of a regional military coalition to fight these groups.
The coalition has lost momentum in recent years following the withdrawal from Niger due to diplomatic disputes with Nigeria, following the 2023 military coup in Niger.
The United States has announced the deployment of 200 soldiers to Nigeria to provide technical support and training to the Nigerian army in its fight against jihadist groups: the first soldiers, numbering one hundred, arrived Monday at the Bauchi military base.
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