Boko-Haram Update

Communique of the Chairperson on the Boko Haram attacks in Nigeria and Chad

 The Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, has learned with deep sadness of the mortiferous and quasi simultaneous attacks perpetrated by Boko Haram versus a Chadian unwashed position in the zone of Boma, in the Lake Chad region, and a convoy of the Nigerian unwashed in Konduga in Borno State, Nigeria.

During these attacks, 92 soldiers were killed and 47 wounded on the Chadian unwashed side, and 70 Nigerian soldiers were killed. In this particularly painful circumstance, the Chairperson expresses his sincere condolences and total solidarity with the President of the Republic of Chad HE Idriss Deby Itno and the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria HE Muhammadu Buhari, as well as to the defence and security forces of the two countries.These attacks are yet a remoter stark reminder that terrorism remains particularly warlike in the Lake Chad basin, as it is throughout the Sahel region.

The Chairperson urgently appeals for continental and international solidarity with the countries of the Lake Chad valley and the G5 Sahel region who are at the forefront of the fight versus terrorism.

The Chairperson respectfully bows surpassing the memory of the Chadian and Nigerian soldiers who fell in the field of battle. He moreover extends his deepest condolences to the families of the victims and wishes a speedy recovery to the wounded.