The 63-year-old Deby, who seized power himself in a coup after helping Chad defeat Libya in the 1980s, said Washington and other powers were partly to blame for the Boko Haram-IS threat.
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Samantha Power, US ambassador to the United Nations, has announced additional $40 million funding in humanitarian assistance to victims of the Boko Haram violence.
At the United Nations, Ambassador Power works to advance US interests, promote and defend universal values, and address pressing global challenges to global peace, security, and prosperity. We are training and equipping regional militaries and we are sharing intelligence with those forces to strengthen the region’s capacity to mount a coordinated fight against Boko Haram. Gen. Victor Ezugwu, has escaped an assassination attempt in an ambush by members of the Boko Haram sect at the Bama axis of Borno State.
(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik). U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power and Chad President Idriss Deby Itno ask for aides and interpreters as they walk out of a meeting to speak to members of the media after meeting together at the presidential…
When the insurgency started in 2009, the group’s spiritual leader, Muhammed Yusuf, achieved a recruitment bonanza for his Islamic movement by constantly blaming government for the socio-economic woes that plunged the populace into untold hardship and poverty.
It stated that Power had earlier visited Cameroon and Chad between April 16 and 20 to underscore the rising danger the insurgence poses to the Lake Chad Basin region.
The US contribution will also allow our partners to extend and expand the reach of emergency food assistance in North Eastern Nigeria. “Acting otherwise may lead to painful and untimely death from the blood-thirsty Boko Haram terrorists”. So I thank you and thank you for welcoming me to your country.
“The Nigerian troops have successfully repelled an attack by Boko Haram terrorists who attempted an incursion into (the) 113 Battalion”, army spokesman Sani Usman said in a statement carried by PR Nigeria, which releases government statements. It takes total USA aid to the sub-region since 2014 to $237 million, she said.
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“We also would like to advice that they should tread with caution as this could be distractive to us”.
