Previous military President, Ibrahim Babangida, says he has “implicit confidence” that President Muhammadu Buhari will squash Boko Haram. In an extraordinary eid-el-fitri message on Wednesday, Babangida said late exercises of the extremists have “continued to raise our adrenaline, in a season of apprehension and utter suspicion, about our security engagements and the sum total of our collective sufferance as a nation”.
Following the mutiny and failed coup attempt in Niamey on 28 and 29 August, a Nigerien army officer said on state television that Chadian officers and associates of former president Mohamed Bazoum had supported the mutineers. He also alleged that reinforcements were expected to transit through Chad, deepening tensions between Niamey and N’Djamena. The accusations come as relations between Niger’s junta leader General Abdourahamane Tiani and Chadian President Mahamat Idriss Déby have been strained by armed group activity and shifting ...
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