In eight months Niger’s air force has carried out its biggest counter-offensive attack yet against insurgents.
Reports reaching us have it that the Niger bombers launched a full offensive on a Boko Haram base taking 20 Boko Haram militants prisoner in the southeastern part of the country on Thursday, November 5. The Lake Chad area of the country has in recent times been subject to countless attacks by the dreaded sect.The Southern border town of Diffa in Niger has also not been spared these attacks by the Boko Haram.
Sources revealed that the murder of a soldier in a vehicle explosion orchestrated by the terrorists on November 2 near Lake Chad led to the tracking down of the insurgents.
A military officer stated – “Our air forces destroyed this nest, but we do not yet have an official death toll”. Niger’s parliament approved a three-month extension of a 15-day state of emergency in Diffa in order to boost security last month.
A top U.N. official in West Africa intimated that at the end of the rainy season a long-awaited 8,700 regional task force would set in motion joint raids on militants’ last enclaves.
In a bid to further degrade the assets of the Boko Haram sect.On October 27, NAF Alpha Jets carried out airstrikes and destroyed the terrorists’ vehicle workshops, fuel and ammunition dumps all within the Sambisa forest.
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