Landmine blast hits Cameroonian military vehicle, killing two near Homeka

A Cameroonian army vehicle operating on behalf of the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) in the fight against Boko Haram has been hit by a landmine near In Homeka, a town in the Far North region of Cameroon early this morning, according to local French daily newspaper L'Oeil du Sahel.Two casualties have been reported so far, with 5 other soldiers sustaining serious injuries.The explosion destroyed parts of the truck, according to eye witnesses.

The Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF)  had been operating in the boarder areas with Nigeria in order to foster regional cooperation and expand partner capacity to ensure Boko Haram and ISIS-West Africa do not further destabilise the region.

Boko Haram has been wreaking havoc in Cameroon since 2014, killing about 2000 civilians and at least 150 soldiers and policemen and displacing hundreds of thousands of people in a war that does not seem to go away.

Presidents Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria and Paul Biya of Cameroon have vowed many times to crush the “godless, mindless” militants who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State in March 2015 and have since been modelling their barbarism after the Middle East killers, but those boasts have failed to bring peace and stability to the Lake Chad Basin.