Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
The Collective Voice of The Muslim World
Date: 25/03/2020
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) condemned in the strongest terms the two terrorist attacks that struck both Boma, a peninsula of Lake Chad, leaving 92 soldiers dead. The OIC also condemned the terrorist attack on a number of army vehicles in northeastern Nigeria, killing dozens of soldiers and wounding many others.
OIC Secretary General Dr Yousef Al-Othaimeen extended his deepest condolences and sympathy to the families of the victims, to the governments and peoples of Chad and Nigeria, and wished the wounded a prompt recovery.
He also expressed the OIC’s solidarity with the governments of Chad and Nigeria and its support for their counterterrorism efforts in the Lake Chad Basin region.
Dr Al-Othaimeen reaffirmed the Organization’s unequivocal rejection and condemnation of terrorism and violent extremism in all forms and manifestations.
