Lake Chad straddles Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria

Lake Chad straddles Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria

 Joris Bolomey

An overnight attack by suspected Boko Haram jihadists on a Chadian military base has killed at least 24 people, a military official and regional administrator told AFP on Tuesday.

The Barka Tolorom base is on the shores of Lake Chad, which straddles Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria and whose islands provide a refuge for jihadists from Boko Haram and other radical Islamist groups. 

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