A child carries clean clothes in Bol on January 25, 2015 in the waters of  Lake Chad which borders Chad, Nigeria, Niger and Cameroon. Chad's President Idriss Deby has secured control of regional operations against Boko Haram Islamists, riding roughshod over his supposed allies in a week-long diplomatic and military offensive.  There have been months of disagreements between the countries directly threatened by Boko Haram -- Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad and Niger -- on exactly how to take on the Islamists.  AFP PHOTO / SIA KAMBOU        (Photo credit should read SIA KAMBOU/AFP/Getty Images)