On 23 March 2020, Islamists carried out massacres of soldiers in Chad and Nigeria.

Attack on Bohama camp

Starting at 5am, Boko Haram gunmen attacked Bohama military camp on an island in Lake Chad.Boko Haram kills almost 100 soldiers in seven-hour attack in Chad
/ref> The attack took place from four sides, attacking with about 400 soldiers. The jihadists overran the camp after seven hours of fighting. Reinforcement were sent from the town of Kaïga Kindjiria to relive the stricken camp but got stuck and were ambushed. In total 98 Chadian soldiers were killed, 47 wounded, and 24 vehicles destroyed.

Gorgi ambush

In the evening, insurgents with rocket-propelled grenades and other heavy weaponry ambushed an army lorry and incinerated it, killing about 70 Nigerian soldiers, in Gorgi, a village in Borno State in the northeast of the country.Militant ambush kills at least 70 soldiers
/ref> Several other soldiers were injured and some others kidnapped. The lorry was part of a convoy which was travelling from Maiduguri to an ISIL camp.

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