At least 40 Chadian soldiers were killed after the Islamist group Boko Haram attacked
a Chadian Army garrison in the Lake Chad region. The attack has resulted in Operation Haskanite, the
aim of which is to hunt down and root out the hundreds of Boko Haram militants responsible for the
attack in the vast Lake Chad region, which the group have exploited as a safe haven. Boko Haram are
almost certainly taking advantage of the wider destabilisation of the Sahel to conduct increased
attacks, with attacks in Chad likely designed to undermine the Chadian government and to divert
resources away from their traditional stronghold in northern Nigeria.