443 Boko Haram Members Surrender After Clash With ISWAP CoverStories
In one of the attacks led by three notorious ISWAP commanders comprising Mallam Abubakar Maina, Qaed Malam Dahiru, Qaed Mallam Dahiru in Guzamala, over 200 Boko Haram militant jihadists, including their women and children were eliminated.
The onslaught against the group continued on March 8 when more than 100 of them were killed on the fringes of Baga, Marte and Dikwa. This time, the terrorists targeted only men, sparing their families. According to Zagazola Makama, a counter-insurgency expert and security analyst in the Lake Chad, the government of Republic of Niger through its public relations and information directorate said the week was marked by displacement of several families of terrorists leaving the Sambisa forest for Lake Chad on the Niger side.
The director, Defence Media Operations of Nigeria’s Defence Headquarters, Maj.-Gen. Musa Danmadami, placed the number of surrendered Boko Haram members within the last two weeks at 1,332. This figure has increased in the following days. It is left to be seen how the deadly rivalry between Boko Haram and their erstwhile partners in battle, ISWAP, will shape the dynamics of the more than a decade-long bloody insurgency in the Lake Chad region.
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