{"id":77949,"date":"2025-11-03T12:41:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T12:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77949"},"modified":"2025-11-03T12:41:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T12:41:37","slug":"chad-shuts-border-with-nigeria-over-security-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/03\/chad-shuts-border-with-nigeria-over-security-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Chad Shuts Border With Nigeria Over Security Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Chad has closed its border with Nigeria, citing security concerns amid reports of possible U.S. military activity in West Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Military sources in N\u2019Djamena said President Mahamat Idriss D\u00e9by Itno ordered the closure after intelligence suggested that terrorist elements from northern Nigeria were planning to cross into Chad.<\/p>\n<p>Troops and armoured vehicles have been deployed along key border routes, including the Lake Chad region and areas bordering Borno State.<\/p>\n<p>D\u00e9by vowed that \u201cno armed group or foreign force will be allowed to enter Chadian soil,\u201d stressing the government\u2019s commitment to national sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts described the move as a preventive step to safeguard Chad\u2019s territorial integrity, though it is expected to affect trade and movement across the already volatile Lake Chad Basin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado &nbsp; Chad has closed its border with Nigeria, citing security concerns amid reports of possible U.S. military activity in West Africa. Military sources in N\u2019Djamena said President Mahamat Idriss D\u00e9by Itno ordered the closure after intelligence suggested that terrorist elements from northern Nigeria were planning to cross into Chad. Troops and armoured [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":77950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77951,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77949\/revisions\/77951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}