Nigeria election boss rules out further poll delay as army claims gains

– Chadian forces push on –

Two Chadian soldiers were also killed and nine injured in Tuesday’s fighting, General Brahim Seid Mahamat said, adding that “four vehicles packed with explosives” had been destroyed.

Boko Haram’s bloody six-year campaign to establish a hardline Islamic caliphate in northeast Nigeria, along its borders with Cameroon, Chad and Niger, has killed some 13,000 people since 2009.

The presence of Chadian forces in Dikwa, well inside Nigerian territory, may indicate their readiness to push further into rebel-controlled areas to assist Nigeria’s beleaguered military.

There was no way of independently verifying the two armies’ claims of gains against the insurgents. The two countries have repeatedly made similar assertions as have Niger and Cameroon, which have also taking part in a regional fightback against the group.

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