Chad’s parliament voted Friday to send armed forces to Cameroon and Nigeria to fight Boko Haram a day after President Idriss Deby Itno announced his intention to join the fight against the Islamists.
Chad’s parliament in N’Djamena voted 150 to 0 to send an unspecified number of “Chadian armed troops and security forces to assist Cameroonian and Nigerian soldiers waging war against the terrorists in Cameroon and Nigeria,” a parliament statement said after the vote to join what is now a regional effort defeat Boko Haram.
Earlier this week, the Cameroon military said it prevented an attempted attack on a military base in Kolofata and killed at least 143 suspected Boko Haram fighters.
The United Nation representative said the world must unite to condemn
Boko Haram’s new cruel and malicious use of young girls as suicide
bombers.
by news agencies