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Fifteen Chad National Army soldiers are killed and 32 others are wounded in clashes with Boko Haram militants near Lake Chad. At least 96 Boko Haram militants are killed and 11 others are wounded in the operation.
2024-11-9

Seven Chadian soldiers conducting a patrol near Lake Chad are killed in an IED bombing. Chadian president Mahamat Déby accuses jihadist group Boko Haram of being behind the attack.
2024-03-25

Thirty-five Islamic State members are killed during a fight with Boko Haram militants in Lake Chad, resulting in the dislodgement of Islamic State from two of its enclaves.
2023-01-7

At least 20 Chadian soldiers are killed in an attack by Boko Haram militants during a routine patrol near Lake Chad.
2021-08-5

The death toll of an attack that occurred on 22 December 2019 rises from 14 to 50 after more bodies are found in Lake Chad.
2020-01-3

Niger, following attacks by Boko Haram on Bosso and Yebi in the Lake Chad region, extends for three months a state of emergency in Diffa.
2016-07-30

An overnight raid by suspected Boko Haram militants on Niger's southern border town of Abadam, kills two Nigerien Army soldiers and three civilians. And, separately, a suicide-bomb attack on Lake Chad killed three of the attackers but no one else. A military convoy was also ambushed by militants in northern Cameroon, although there were no reported deaths.
2015-12-23

The government of Chad declares a state of emergency in the Lake Chad area a day after a double suicide bombing that has killed two people.
2015-11-9

Two suicide bomb attacks in Ngouboua, a remote village near Lake Chad, kill three people, including the bombers, and injure four others, according to Chadian Communication Minister Hassan Sylla Bakari.
2015-11-8

A Boko Haram attack near Lake Chad kills at least 11 Chadian troops while 17 Boko Haram militants are also reportedly killed in the fighting following the pre-dawn strike on Chadian army positions.
2015-10-6