[In The New]Chibok: Negotiations With Boko Haram Ongoing – President Of Chad

President of Chad Idriss Deby said November 4 that negotiations with Boko Haram regarding the release of more than 200 Chibok girls abducted in April continued.

The country leader made this known while speaking in N’Djamena adding that the talks were ongoing despite what had been claimed by the sect leader Abubakar Shekau in the latest video released October 31, Nigerian Tribune reports.

Regarding the ceasefire agreement allegedly concluded between the Federal Government and the sect in Chad, Shekau said such deal had never existed at all.

Reacting to the development, Deby said the statement contradicted the earlier meeting and announcement of a deal to release them.

The top politician also expressed concern over the future of his country in the face of Boko Haram insurgency.

“With jihadist fighters prowling Libya’s deserts to the North, al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb active in the West and rebels and janjaweed militia battling in Sudan’s Darfur region to its East, Chad already finds itself in the eye of the storm… We are worried that they will come here next.”

The center of Boko Haram activity located less than 100 kilometres from the Chadian capital.

A security source in the country spoke earlier this month about sleeper cells of Boko Haram in the Lake Chad region. However they are no longer “sleeping”, the source provides the update now, adding that “they have started waking”.