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Boko Haram militants have struck again in the volatile Lake Chad basin, killing at least 23 Chadian soldiers in a daring pre-dawn raid on a military outpost on the island of Barka Tolorom. Military sources say the attackers, estimated at more than 200 fighters in speedboats and on foot, overran the forward operating base shortly […]
...It was a Saturday market day, which in the villages that straddle the Borno-Yobe border means something particular. It means the smell of dried fish and millet. It means men arriving on motorcycles before dawn, women spreading cloth on cracked earth, children darting between the stalls. It means the week’s commerce — and sometimes the […]
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