'Our mission is to hunt down Boko Haram, and we have all the means to do that.' These were the stirring words of Djerou Ibrahim, a colonel in the Chadian army, as he prepared to lead a 400-vehicle military convoy into Cameroon and north-eastern Nigeria.
The soldiers - a brigade's worth, probably between 1 500 to 2 000 men - were dispatched on 16 January by Chad's legislative body, which voted unanimously to send 'Chadian armed troops and security forces to assist Cameroonian and Nigerian soldiers waging war against the terrorists in Cameroon and Nigeria.'
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