About 200 Dead as Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) Allegedly Clash in Brutal Battle for Control of Lake Chad Basin
This emerges amid as wider Fulani terrorism has claimed tens of thousands of lives and displaced millions in Nigeria’s northern region.
Nigeria – November 10, 2025
A fierce and bloody confrontation has reportedly erupted between two of Nigeria’s most notorious terrorist groups, Boko Haram and the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), around the Lake Chad Basin in North-Eastern Nigeria.
According to a Nigerian army-affiliated vigilante group, Fulani terrorist jihadist groups have been locked in violent combat for several days, leaving about 200 fighters dead on both sides.
The ongoing infighting reportedly stems from disputes over territorial control, leadership dominance, and access to supply routes in the region.
According to the Nigerian army affiliated source, the fighting allegedly broke out over the weekend in the area of Dogon Chiku, an island village located where Nigeria, Niger, Chad, and Cameroon meet.
Reportedly, ISWAP sustained the heavier losses, including personnel and captured equipment such as boats, while Boko Haram seized control of several base sites and supply corridors.
“From the toll we have, around 200 ISWAP terrorists were killed,” Babakura Kolo, a member of a local vigilante group linked to the Nigerian military told Agence France-Presse, claiming that the fighting is “good for the country.”
This emerges amid as wider Fulani terrorism has claimed tens of thousands of lives and displaced millions in Nigeria’s northern region.
The U.S. President Donald J. Trump had on the 31st of October declared Nigeria a “Country of Particular Concern” following what he described as an “existential threat” to Christianity in the country, a statement that resonated strongly among Nigerians.
“If the Nigerian government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the U.S.A. will stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria, and may very well go into that now disgraced country, guns-a-blazing,” Trump wrote afterwards and reported by PEOPLES CHRONICLES.
The Nigerian government quickly tackled Trump, insisting that the U.S. government should not go ahead with their plan of “annihilating” the terrorists.
This fighting underscores the deepening entrenchment of terror networks in Nigeria, a country where government authority barely exists in the Fulani terrorists controlled region.
It is increasingly evident that the greatest challenge facing these rival factions is not the Nigerian government, but their own battle for dominance. Meanwhile, innocent civilians continue to bear the brunt of the chaos and instability across the northeast, where state and military presence has all but vanished.
Security experts predict that this fighting will create new openings for greater violence and instability.
Humanitarian risks are elevated: Christians in the region already face the dual threat of jihadist violence and displacement, and clashes of this magnitude is set to worsen the humanitarian crises.
The reported fight for supremacy between Boko Haram and ISWAP in the Lake Chad basin marks a dangerous escalation in Nigeria’s Jihad theatre, and raises more hard questions about safety of Christians, control of contested territory, amidst the ability of government forces to respond.
