By RFIPalled on 22-02-2019Modified on 22-02-2019 at 23:47
On Friday, February 22, dozens of vehicles carrying Chadian troops crossed the border to Cameroon and Nigeria to help counter the rise of Boko Haram in recent weeks.
The inhabitants of Kousséri, the Cameroonian city that faces the Chadian capital, applauded the passage of Chadian soldiers who crossed the border Friday, February 22 at the end of the day.
A contingent of " more than five hundred soldiers" has entered Nigeria to " lend a hand " to the Nigerian army, told Agence France-Presse spokesman for the Chadian army, Colonel Azem Bermendoa Agouna.
The Chadian column, which is part of sector two of the joint multinational force fighting Boko Haram, is redeployed to support the Cameroonian and Nigerian armies in the face of renewed attacks by Islamists who accumulate military victories in recent weeks. " They even managed to recover tanks ," said a military source.
The mission of the Chadian column in support of the armies of Cameroon and Nigeria will be to reclaim northern Nigeria occupied again by Boko Haram in recent weeks. The objective will be to liberate the extreme north of Nigeria on the strip from the border of Cameroon to Niger bordering the west bank of Lake Chad.
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