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Suspected Boko Haram Takfiri terrorists have kidnapped 16 women in Nigeria’s northeastern state of Adamawa, local officials say. Police said they have received reports of the kidnap of 14 women and two girls by gunmen believed to be Boko Haram insurgents near Sabon Garin Madagali village. According to locals, the women were abducted in the bush Wednesday while fetching fire wood and fishing in a river. Two women jumped into the river and pretended to have drowned. They later returned to their village and told locals about the abduction.
A police spokesman said search teams have been deployed to the region and that the Nigerian army has been informed. The army has already been carrying out operations in the region to free hundreds of hostages held by Boko Haram. On Thursday, the army said it had freed over 800 people held by the Takfiri group in several villages in the northeastern state of Borno.
Some 25 militants were killed in the army operations and army soldiers seized the militant group’s equipment, it said. Madagali is located on the border with Borno State and has been repeatedly attacked by Boko Haram militants. The Takfiri group has abducted thousands of women, including schoolgirls, over the past few years.
Boko Haram started its campaign of militancy in 2009 with the aim of toppling the central government in Nigeria. It has so far taken the lives of at least 17,000 people and forced over 2.5 million others to flee their homes. The terror group has pledged allegiance to Daesh Takfiri terrorists, who are mainly wreaking havoc in Syria and Iraq.
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Abdallah Adamou, the man widely believed to have negotiated with Boko Haram for the release of the Vice Prime Minister’s wife and other foreign hostages held by the Nigerian Islamic sect has been arrested by Cameroon’s secret service and taken to an unknown destination.
Abdullah Adamou reportedly contributed to the released of the Moulin Fournier family from France whose seven members were kidnapped in Dabanga on February 19th, 2014, two Italian priests; Rev. Giampaolo Marta and Rev. Gianantonio Allegri and Canadian clergy, Gilberte Bussiere, abducted on the night of the 4th and 5th of April 2014 and released on May 31st, 2014 around the Amchide locality in the Far North region. He was also a key man in the deal that freed 10 Chinese kidnapped in Waza in May 2014 and released on October the 10th alongside 17 abducted Cameroonians in Kolofata, freed on the 27th of July 2014.
A journalist with L’Oeil du Sahel who is very experienced in intelligence reporting revealed relations between the regime in Yaounde and Abdullah Adamou had significantly worsened in recent months and he was now suspected of collusion with Boko Haram. We understand his passport was first withdrawn when the SDF Chairman Ni John Fru Ndi openly challenged the CPDM regime to make public the Boko Haram negotiator. Two other relatives of Abdallah Adamou resident in Amchide were arrested on the 16th of March 2016.
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After several hours of fighting, the Cameroonian army successfully freed twelve persons held by Boko Haram militants in the town of Tchabal located in the Adamawa region. The elements of the 31 Mechanized Infantry Division also routed twenty kidnappers. The Cameroonian hostages were kidnapped in Tchabal-Naboul, Tchabal-Mounguel and Saltaka villages in the department of Vina in the Adamawa region.
The twelve people released included men, a woman and a teenage girl. The army also seized nine boxes of weapons of war, a Kalashnikov, amulets, Indian hemp and machetes. The hostage-takers were stuck in the Faro Park area between the region of Adamawa and the North. Two kidnappers were killed in the fighting while many of them were wounded but managed to escape.
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Cameroonian soldiers killed 20 Boko Haram fighters on Wednesday during a raid in northern Nigeria carried out by a multinational force tasked with stamping out the Islamist militants, military sources told Reuters on Thursday.
Commander General Jacob Kodji said the Islamist fighters were killed in the Nigerian town of Djibrila, which is about 10 km (six miles) from the Cameroon border. A spokesman for Cameroon's Defence Ministry, Colonel Didier Badjeck, said 12 hostages were freed and munitions and armoured vehicles were seized during the operation.
Boko Haram wants to establish an Islamist state in northeastern Nigeria and has waged a six-year campaign of violence to that end, killing thousands of people and displacing two million others. Boko Haram is thought to have killed around 15,000 people, according to U.S. military figures.
Attacks have spilled over Nigeria's border into neighbouring countries including Cameroon, which has been the target of a stream of suicide bombings in recent months. Along with Chad, Niger, Nigeria and Benin, Cameroon has contributed troops to an 8,700-strong regional task force dedicated to fighting the group.
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Cameroon’s Local Newspaper L’Oeil du Sahel reports that 89 members of the Boko Haram Terror Group were sentenced to death at a high court in Maroua Far North Region of Cameroon. Over more than 1000 captured insurgents are still awaiting their fate as trial goes on.
Cameroon has become a major target for Boko Haram attacks. Communication Minister Issa Tchiroma Bakary said earlier this month that the insurgents have killed nearly 1,200 people since they began attacks in Cameroon in 2013. Tchiroma has frequently said that "the days of Boko Haram were numbered." But the most recent attack suggests otherwise. Cameroon is part of an 8,700-member Multinational Task Force to fight the terrorists, and the United States has contributed 300 troops as well as equipment to assist.
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Cameroon said raids on Boko Haram strongholds along the country's northern border with Nigeria are taking a huge toll, with hospitals in the area overwhelmed by victims wounded during insurgency efforts, officials said.
Regional forces from Cameroon, Nigeria, Chad, Niger and Benin have been launching raids on the militants since last December.
The troops' raids, as well as suicide bombings and landmines used by the insurgents have increased the number of victims.
The hospitals are suffering acute shortages of staff, medical equipment and infrastructure.
Hannah Lechantre, a French-born volunteer with the Cameroon medical council, said the Mora district hospital, with a capacity of 50 beds, now has 350 victims from Cameroon and Nigeria.
'Very worrying'
"Actually, their health status and their mental status is very worrying. All these people, families, women, children have been hiding so long in the bush, eating nothing and drinking dirty water, so they arrive in Cameroon in very very bad situation in terms of health," Lechantre said.
Cameroon Health Minister Andre Mama Fouda said five hospitals, with a capacity of about 350, on the border with Nigeria are overcrowded with more than 1,700 victims being taken care of by about 400 staff members.
Fouda said the hospitals lack equipment and infrastructure to cope with the growing numbers and the hospitals are running short of supplies despite international efforts to assist.
Cameroon said more than 1,500 victims of Boko Haram atrocities died in hospitals on its northern border with Nigeria between January 2015 and March of this year.
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