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HISTORY: How Chad late president led troops to Boko Haram’s den

During the 31 years in office, the late Chad president joined his country’s soldiers in the frontline last year to a ferocious attack on Boko Haram terrorists in the country.

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HISTORY: How Chad late president led troops to Boko Haram's den

During the 31 years in office, the late Chad president, Idris Deby joined his country’s soldiers in the frontline last year to a ferocious attack on Boko Haram terrorists in the country.

Moreso, the operation codenamed “Operation Wrath of Bomo,” came after terrorists dealt the heaviest blow to the Chadian military after an assault killed over 90 soldiers.

“We launched the “Wrath of Bomo” operation. We must defeat terrorism to allow our people and especially those of Lake Chad to live in peace. This is the whole meaning of the fight that our valiant soldiers are waging against Boko Haram,” Deby said in a tweet a year ago.

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In a video making the rounds on Twitter last year, Deby was captured disclosing that Boko Haram’s factional leader, Abubakar Shekau, had narrowly escaped in the town of Dikoa.

He goes on to advise Shekau to surrender or be killed inside his Dikoa hideout.

“Abubakar Shekau was lucky, he was at Dikoa during the attack. He fled from Dikoa but we know where he is,” the president stressed during a state broadcast.

The Boko Haram group is one of Africa’s deadliest along with Somalia’s Al-Shabaab and Al-Qaeda in the Sahel region.

Although birthed in northern Nigeria’s Borno State, the Boko Haram insurgency has taken a regional dimension with the group launching attacks across the Lake Chad region which borders Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon and Chad.

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