Nigeria, Feb. 16 -- Two weeks after a failed reconciliation move between Jama'tu Ahlis Sunna Lidda'awati wal-Jihad (JAS), popularly known as Boko Haram, and its breakaway faction, Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), both groups have resumed fighting in Abadam Local Government Area of Borno State.

This is not the first time the Bakura Doro-led faction of Boko Haram and ISWAP engaged in such violent fighting on the islands of Lake Chad Basin.

The recent clash, according to Zagazola Makama, a counterinsurgency expert in the North-east, occurred on 14 February around ISWAP camps in Toumbun Gini and Toumbun Ali.

Mr Makama, in an X post, said ISWAP suffered heavy casualties in the battle that was fought on water. He said the fighting...