ISWAP Overruns Wulgo MNJTF Base: 5 Soldiers Killed, Armored Vehicles Destroyed

In a pre-dawn assault on May 16, ISWAP fighters stormed the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) base at Wulgo, Borno State, near the Cameroon-Nigeria border on the Lake Chad shoreline. Four Nigerian soldiers and one Cameroonian soldier were killed; nine ISWAP fighters were also killed in the assault. The attackers burned two mine-resistant armored vehicles (MRAPs) and five military trucks, and seized motorcycles belonging to local hunter militias. Troops were temporarily forced to abandon the base before later recovering it. The attack followed a similar MNJTF base raid in the same location two months prior that killed 25 Cameroonian soldiers, indicating ISWAP's sustained capability to threaten multinational forces across the Lake Chad Basin. Military analysts noted the coordinated nature of the assault, coming on the same day as the US-Nigeria strike that killed al-Minuki.