ISWAP fighter’s wife, infant surrender to troops in Borno

A pistillate identified arsenic the woman of an Islamic State West Africa Province, ISWAP, combatant has surrendered to troops of Operation Hadin Kai with her two-month-old babe successful Kukawa Local Government Area of Borno State.

This was made known successful a station connected X by Zagazola Makama, a counter-insurgency and information adept successful the Lake Chad region.

Zagazola explained that the woman, identified arsenic Falmata Bakwai, surrendered to troops of the 19 Brigade astatine Cross Kauwa astatine astir 10:15 a.m. connected June 26.

He said that Falmata said she escaped from the ISWAP enclave astatine Dogon Chuku portion her hubby and different fighters were distant from the camp.

According to him, during preliminary debriefing, she reportedly told the troops that deteriorating surviving conditions wrong the violent enclave, including terrible shortages of nutrient and different basal necessities, compelled her to flee.

The information adept added that she attributed the worsening humanitarian conditions successful the campy to sustained subject strangulation operations and aerial bombardments targeting violent hideouts.

“She and her babe person since been quarantined and provided with aesculapian assistance in...