Boko Haram jihadists killed 18 loggers in Nigeria's Borno state after fighters on motorcycles rounded up the group near the village of Abaram in the Bama district and opened fire, while separately, a deadly raid on the Barka Tolorom military base in Chad killed at least 24 soldiers and two senior generals. In response, Chad declared a 20-day state of emergency in the Lake Chad region (a remote, multi-border basin shared by Chad, Nigeria, Cameroon, and Niger that has long served as a jihadist stronghold) following nationwide mourning and intensified military operations. The attacks underscore a worsening insurgency now in its seventeenth year, with Boko Haram and its rival splinter group ISWAP increasingly targeting civilians — including loggers, farmers, and fishermen — whom they accuse of passing intelligence to the military.