Over 3,000 Nigerians have fled to Chad to escape attacks in northern Nigeria by Islamist extremist group Boko Haram, government officials said Wednesday. "Since mid-December we've witnessed a massive influx of Nigerian refugees in the Lake Chad region" bordering Nigeria, Chadian Prime Minister Kalzeube Pahimi Deubet told diplomats and other international officials in N'Djamena.
Civilians fled their homes on the shores of Lake Chad in northeastern Nigeria at the weekend after a series of Boko Haram raids in which they seized a military base and several villages.