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Circa 205 Nigerian men, women and children residing in the Mayo-Sava Division in the Far North region fleeing the atrocities of Boko Haram have been repatriated to Nigeria. Correspondingly, some 250 Cameroonian hostages previously held by the Nigerian Islamic sect, Boko Haram were freed during a joint commando operation by the Cameroonian and Nigerian forcess. The Cameroonian hostages including six babies who were taken prisoners since July 2015 are now being supported in health infrastructure in the Far North region. It is vital to include in this report that several young children were forcibly recruited into the ranks of Boko Haram during the early stage of the conflict.
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At least 15 people have been killed after Boko Haram Takfiri militants carried out gun and bombing attacks in a key city in northeastern Nigeria, reports say. The militants attacked Jiddari Polo, an area located on the outskirts of Borno State’s capital, Maiduguri, on Sunday evening. Locals who were attending prayers at a mosque in the area said they heard the sound of gunfire and artillery rounds following evening prayers. Residents also started to flee their homes to other areas in the city after the attacks, according to reports.
The death toll from the attacks is expected to rise. "We have to wait until the morning to have a good picture of the aftermath of the clash, because it happened in the dark," said Babakura Kolo, a civilian assisting the Nigerian military. The attacks, which were the first to be carried out in Maiduguri in recent months, ended after the Nigerian military responded with artillery fire. The terrorist group has been trying to regain control over Maiduguri, which is the group’s birthplace.
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Two people (a suicide bomber and a civilian)died on Sunday in Tolkmari, a town in Mayo-Sava Division in the Far North region of Cameroon. The explosion from the female suicide bomber also injured three persons who are now being supported by military doctors.
On Christmas Day, a woman carrying her newborn baby blew up herself at Nguetsewé (Far North) killing three people including herself and her baby. On Boxing Day, a food truck was targeted at AWAZA Waza by suspected members of the Nigerian Islamic sect, Boko Haram.
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Suspected Boko Haram militants launched four attacks over 24 hours on villages in Niger, Chad and Cameroon, killing at least seven people, security and administrative sources said on Wednesday. The Islamist militants are mostly based in northeastern Nigeria but have become a major threat to wider regional security by carrying out attacks in the lawless Lake Chad zone where the borders of Chad, Cameroon, Niger and Nigeria meet. In the most deadly of three attacks since Tuesday, militants killed two soldiers and three civilians in Niger's southern border town of Abadam overnight, the sources said. About 150 km (90 miles) east in Chad, three militants were killed when they detonated suicide bombs after being found out by a group of local people as they sought to embark from an island to a lakeside market in Bol.
A fourth set off his bomb but survived. "They were intercepted by villagers who wanted to search them and they resisted," said a local official who asked not to be named. Three other militants managed to shed the explosives they were carrying and swim away, he added. A female suicide bomber blew herself up on Wednesday in the town of Nguetchewe in Cameroon's Far North Region, also killing a small girl accompanying her and a local resident. In northern Cameroon, several suspected Boko Haram fighters attacked three food trucks near the Chadian border on Wednesday, officials said. Cameroonian Special Forces (BIR) arrived shortly afterwards and there were no deaths or injuries. Boko Haram has killed tens of thousands of people and driven more than 2 million people to flee their homes during its six-year insurgency in one of the world's poorest regions.
Regional governments including Nigeria, Chad, Niger, Cameroon and Benin have pledged to destroy the group using an 8,700-strong regional task force. The United States has also sent troops to supply intelligence and other assistance. But joint operations have yet to begin, leaving it up to national armies to tackle the group individually. In the absence of effective coordination, security sources have warned this often means that soldiers just drive the militants across each other's borders. Both Chad and Niger have declared a state of emergency for the regions of Lake Chad and Diffa respectively which have been hit by dozens of attacks this year. Aid agencies say they often struggle to provide food and other support to the vulnerable local populations because of the security challenges.
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Cameroonian troops are said to have killed at least 70 Nigerian villagers as they were chasing Boko Haram Takfiri militants into communities in northeastern Nigeria. Villagers said the Cameroonian troops invaded their community in the Gwoza area of the northeastern state of Borno on Sunday, December 20. They said troops entered Kirawa-Jimni Village and opened unprovoked fire on the villagers after asking for the location of the militants they were chasing.
“We didn’t know what was going on but the Cameroonian troops suddenly appeared and began to ask us for Boko Haram terrorists,” Mohammed Abba, the commander of a local group in Jimnana set up to fight Boko Haram, said late Tuesday. “Before we could say a word, they started firing. That scared most of us and we began to run,” he said, adding that when the villagers returned on Monday, they found 70 bodies.
Late last month, Cameroonian troops engaged in a similar chase in Cameroon, during which they killed 150 villagers. Cameroon’s government, however, denied the charges, saying the military is trained to respect human rights. It claimed that the troops carried out a coordinated operation on several border villages last month and freed 900 people held hostage by Boko Haram militants. At least 20,000 people have been killed and more than 2.5 million displaced since the beginning of the Boko Haram militancy in Nigeria in 2009.
The militants have recently pledged allegiance to Daesh (ISIL) Takfiri terrorist group, which now controls parts of Syria and Iraq. Cameroon is part of a regional task force set up to fight Boko Haram terrorists, who sometimes infiltrate Nigeria’s neighbors, including Cameroon, to carry out terrorist attacks there.
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Cameroonian troops are said to have killed at least 70 Nigerian villagers as they were chasing Boko Haram Takfiri militants into communities in northeastern Nigeria. Villagers said the Cameroonian troops invaded their community in the Gwoza area of the northeastern state of Borno on Sunday, December 20. They said troops entered Kirawa-Jimni Village and opened unprovoked fire on the villagers after asking for the location of the militants they were chasing.
“We didn’t know what was going on but the Cameroonian troops suddenly appeared and began to ask us for Boko Haram terrorists,” Mohammed Abba, the commander of a local group in Jimnana set up to fight Boko Haram, said late Tuesday. “Before we could say a word, they started firing. That scared most of us and we began to run,” he said, adding that when the villagers returned on Monday, they found 70 bodies.
Late last month, Cameroonian troops engaged in a similar chase in Cameroon, during which they killed 150 villagers. Cameroon’s government, however, denied the charges, saying the military is trained to respect human rights. It claimed that the troops carried out a coordinated operation on several border villages last month and freed 900 people held hostage by Boko Haram militants. At least 20,000 people have been killed and more than 2.5 million displaced since the beginning of the Boko Haram militancy in Nigeria in 2009.
The militants have recently pledged allegiance to Daesh (ISIL) Takfiri terrorist group, which now controls parts of Syria and Iraq. Cameroon is part of a regional task force set up to fight Boko Haram terrorists, who sometimes infiltrate Nigeria’s neighbors, including Cameroon, to carry out terrorist attacks there.
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