Boko Haram have seized a strategic town in Nigeria’s far northeast, prompting denials from the military, as experts said the government risked losing control and the region was “on the brink” of takeover.
Residents in Bama and a local politician said on Tuesday that 400 troops, some of them without weapons or boots, had fled after a military jet mistakenly bombarded the town’s barracks during intense fighting.
Nigeria’s military countered that it had pushed back the militants, who in recent weeks have moved from indiscriminate and retaliatory hit-and-run attacks to seizing strategic territory in Borno state.
However, Ali Ndume, a Nigerian senator, said thousands of people were seen fleeing Bama, contradicting the military’s claims that they had repelled an attack on the town…
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