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9 people were killed last night in an attack attributed to Boko Haram, in the village of Goldavi in the Far North region. Boko Haram militants also injured 12 others. The heavily armed fighters simultaneously attacked several Cameroonian localities bordering Nigeria. Several homes were reportedly burned including that of the leader of the village vigilance committee.
The Boko Haram fighters also made away with livestock. At the time of filing this report, information filtered to our news desk in Yaounde that three pregnant women and two children were among those killed. Boko Haram attacks in the Lake Chad have claimed the lives of more than 17,000 people and displaced 2.6 million.
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Four children were butchered with machetes in front of their parents and 8 girls abducted by Boko Haram militants on Thursday in the village of Achigachia in the Far North region of Cameroon. The attackers stormed Achigachia slaughtered four children aged 6 to 12 years and kidnapped eight other girls aged 10-15 years.
Our military informant who reported the incident also added that the Boko Haram fighters were going to sell these girls in Nigeria for forced marriage. Cameroon Concord also learned that two trucks carrying foodstuffs were taken away by Boko Haram militia along the Maroua-Mora highway.
The Far North region of Cameroon has suffered for more than a year, the onslaught of the Nigerian Islamic sect. Several hundreds of people have been killed during these bloody attacks attributed to Boko Haram.
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Four children were butchered with machetes in front of their parents and 8 girls abducted by Boko Haram militants on Thursday in the village of Achigachia in the Far North region of Cameroon. The attackers stormed Achigachia slaughtered four children aged 6 to 12 years and kidnapped eight other girls aged 10-15 years.
Our military informant who reported the incident also added that the Boko Haram fighters were going to sell these girls in Nigeria for forced marriage. Cameroon Concord also learned that two trucks carrying foodstuffs were taken away by Boko Haram militia along the Maroua-Mora highway.
The Far North region of Cameroon has suffered for more than a year, the onslaught of the Nigerian Islamic sect. Several hundreds of people have been killed during these bloody attacks attributed to Boko Haram.
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Last November 4, 2015, the group of 2,500 soldiers and officers from the Chadian army that came to provide Cameroon’s forces its support (since January 2015) in the fight against Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram in the far North of the country, returned to N’Djamena, Chad’s capital city.
According to Chad’s authorities, the retreat is subsequent to the arrival of the multinational Force which now leads operations relating to the fight. This force comprises member-states of the Commission of the Lake Chad basin. It counts 8,700 men from Cameroon, Nigeria, Benin and Chad, and has its headquarters situated in N’Djamena.
Financed by the International community, this army’s main objective is to eradicate Boko Haram who has already killed thousands in Nigeria, Cameroon, Niger and Chad.
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Nigerian government troops have clashed with terrorists from Boko Haram Takfiri group in northeastern part of the African country, killing four militants. The army said in a Monday statement that the troops managed to drive Boko Haram extremists out of an abandoned primary school in the area in a shootout a day earlier. The terrorists had been using the school as a transit camp, the statement added.
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A long-awaited regional task force is set to begin raids on Boko Haram's last enclaves when the rainy season ends soon, the U.N.'s top official in West Africa said. Nigerian and Chadian forces early this year forced the militant group, which has sworn allegiance to Islamic State, to cede large swathes of territory in northern Nigeria, undermining its six-year campaign to carve out a caliphate. But some fighters have since regrouped and ramped up suicide attacks and guerrilla raids in the remote border areas around Lake Chad where Chad, Niger, Cameroon and Nigeria meet. "They will take advantage of the end of the rainy season now to really go after them," said Mohamed Ibn Chambas, U.N. Special Representative for West Africa, in an interview on Wednesday.
The rains in northeast Nigeria typically end in September but have lasted longer this year. The 8,700-strong joint force, headquartered in Chad's capital N'Djamena with troops from Chad, Niger, Benin, Nigeria and Cameroon, was supposed to be fully functional in July. But plans were not finalised until late August, and some observers have bemoaned a lack of progress since. The African Union and the Lake Chad Basin Commission signed a memorandum of understanding in October giving final implementation guidelines and the United States has sent troops to provide intelligence and other assistance.
The expected joint raids will have to adapt to the changing nature of the enemy, which once attacked with hundreds of fighters aboard scores of vehicles but has been reduced to isolated bands, Chambas said. "There are still remote areas where they are hiding and they need to be physically flushed out," he said. Two such enclaves are Nigeria's Sambisa Forest, a vast former colonial hunting reserve, and the rugged mountains straddling the Nigeria-Cameroon border. Individual national armies continue to battle Boko Haram but there has been little sign of joint operations for months.
Chad's President Idriss Deby has indicated the force could begin operations this month. Cooperation has sometimes been hampered by communication problems between English-speaking Nigeria and its francophone neighbors, but Chambas said the situation had improved. He added that a purely military solution would not defeat Boko Haram, referring to the deeper causes of radicalism such as unemployment and climate change on the shrinking Lake Chad. "You can't just physically eliminate Boko Haram and say the problem is gone," he said.
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