Boko Haram fighters attacked a military camp in Kaiga Kinguirya in the Lake Chad region early Sunday, the army’s general staff said in a statement read on national radio.
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Boko Haram, which is mainly based in Nigeria, has recently expanded its terrorist activities to the African country’s neighbors, including Chad.
The Nigerian army, supported by troops from Benin, Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria, is fighting against Boko Haram militants in an effort to end the insurgency.
A Russian military intervention in West Africa against Boko Haram as part of a counter-terrorism operation remains “hypothetical”, according to the French Foreign Ministry.
The Chadian government said on Sunday that soldiers repelled two attacks by Boko Haram on army posts around Lake Chad, leaving 14 militants dead.
A long-awaited 8,700-strong regional task force is set to begin joint raids on its remaining strongholds when the rainy season ends soon, a top United Nations official said this week.
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A six-year insurgency by Boko Haram to create an Islamist state in north-eastern Nigeria has killed more a thousand people in Nigeria, and has spread to neighbouring Cameroon, Chad, and Niger.
