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Suspected Boko Haram militants have attacked a village in northeastern Nigeria, killing at least 68 people. Reports said Thursday that the attack was carried out in Njaba village in Borno State. The Takfiri militants targeted men and boys and then set the village on fire. Fatima Abaka, a witness, was quoted by news website Sahara Reporters as saying, “I ran into the bush. Since then I [have] never seen my husband and three children.” “[I] came back to our village in the afternoon, dead bodies were scattered everywhere,” she added.
Aminatu Mommodu, another witness, said several villagers had been shot or their throats had been slashed inside and outside of the village’s mosque. Elderly men and children were among the victims of the attack, witnesses added. Falmata Bisika, who escaped the attack, told reporters that “the terrorists were armed to the teeth.” Boko Haram, whose name means “Western education is forbidden,” controls parts of northeastern Nigeria and says its goal is to overthrow the Nigerian government. It has claimed responsibility for a number of deadly shooting attacks and bombings in various parts of Nigeria since the beginning of its activities in 2009, which have left over 13,000 people dead and 1.5 million displaced.Boko Haram has also conducted terrorist activities in Nigeria’s neighboring countries of Cameroon, Chad, and Niger.
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The Cameroon Supreme Military Council has ordered the release of bodies of soldiers killed by the Nigerian Islamic sect Boko Haram between December 2014 and February 2015 to family members for burial by midday tomorrow. Cameroon Concord has learnt that the ceremony will take place at the military headquarters in Yaounde. A military source who spoke to Cameroon-info.net observed that "there are 50 bodies of our nation’s fallen heroes among them Captain Elvis Mbene Matute".
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4 people were killed on Tuesday in Kerawa by remnants of Boko Haram militants who succeeded to infiltrate the area. The four were killed yesterday around 2 pm in front of a mosque in Kerawa in the Mayo-Sava Division in the Far North region of the country. Our source in Maroua reported that the Boko Haram militants carried out the raid on motorbikes.
It is important to include in this report that the grand coalition forces of Cameroonian, Nigeria, Chad and Niger have slowed the pace of Boko Haram attacks on Cameroonian territory in recent weeks. Cameroon has suffered more than 120 terrorist incursions from Boko Haram during the last ten months of the ongoing crisis.
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A convoy of trucks loaded with rice, and other basic food necessities belonging to the SOACAM society, going to Kousseri in the Far North region was diverted from its path, around Kangaleri and found later emptied of its cargo. Cameroon Concord’s chief intelligence officer in Yaounde revealed that the commodities were handed on Thursday in Yaounde to Edgar Alain Mebe Ngo'o, Minister at the Presidency of the Republic in charge of Defence to channel to soldiers at the war front and the victims of Boko Haram atrocities in the Far North region.
Cameroon Concord understands that a total of 20 tons of sugar granules; 36 tonnes of bananas; 2 truck of plantains; 50,000 boxes of sardines in vegetable oil; 20,000 bottles of mineral water; 2525 cartons of refined vegetable oil; 1000 cans of 5 litres of refined oil; 50 tons of flour; 4525 boxes of soap; 40 tons of rice, took the road of the Far North. We of this publication are calling on the Head of State President Biya to open up a major investigation on this issue so as to avoid a repeat of the Lake Nyos Disaster Affair.
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Russia has supplied arms and equipment to Cameroon to help in the fight against the Nigerian Islamist sect Boko Haram. Unlike the American “Greek gift” to the Cameroonian military, the Russians have provided Cameroon with latest armaments including air protection equipment, anti-aircraft missiles and armoured trucks.
The Russian gesture is the aftermath of a meeting between the Russian Ambassador to Cameroon, Nikolay Ratsiborinskiy and President Paul Biya. It is vital to include in this report that the Economic Community of Central African States created on February 16th an emergency fund of 50 billion CFA francs for Cameroon and the Chadian army fighting Boko Haram.
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The head of the Nigerian Army, Lieutenant General Kenneth Minimah, says the war against Takfiri Boko Haram militants will soon end. He made the comments on Thursday as he visited soldiers in the town of Baga, a fishing hub located on the shore of Lake Chad in the far north of Borno State in northeast Nigeria. This is good news for Nigerian incumbent president, Jonathan Goodluck the man widely believe will emerge winner in the upcoming general elections in Nigeria. Nigeria’s military said on February 21 that it regained control of Baga from the Boko Haram extremist group, which had overrun the town on January 3 after two days of clashes. “The war is almost ended. We will liberate Dikwa, Bama, Gwoza, Marte and other places in a few days’ time,” Minimah told the troops. The comments come amid efforts by Nigeria and regional countries to secure and stabilize the volatile region ahead of Nigeria’s general elections on March 28. The vote was initially scheduled to take place on February 14 but was postponed by six weeks due to concerns over security on the polling day. Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan and his ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) have been accused of buying time to revitalize their election campaign. Minimah, meanwhile, described the six-week deadline as “achievable,” adding, “We are still within the timeframe.” Boko Haram in Nigeria is a child of Nigerian history and the impunity of Northern Nigeria’s Military establishment. Armed conflict is part of Nigeria history. It is also a business which has enriched many. People including generations unborn learn from history. The savaged brutality meted on civilians and civilian objects in Nigeria pre-exist Boko Haram. These acts of impunity were some of the methods deployed by successive military regimes, most of them from Northern Generals to accede and sustain power. The ongoing slaughter by Boko Haram follows the same pattern which in 1966 led to the Nigeria/Biafra War. The underlying cause of the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Southerners, mainly of the Ibo ethnic groups in the North was never comprehensively investigated, if at all. There is no gainsaying that had the crimes been investigated, the result would have pointed to some powerful individuals within the Nigerian Military structure of Northern origin. For these, political power and control of the economy could only be attained through scapegoating communities whom they perceived as serious competitors.
The Nigerian/Biafra War was a curse on the conscience of the nation but a blessing to the Northern Military establishment. Many of these Generals made fortunes from the war and took the opportunity to entrench themselves in power. Olusegun Obasanjo like Good luck Jonathan came to power during that period as a beneficiary of the sad spoils of death. They were considered outsiders or trespassers to their god ordained power. For this reason, the country had to be made ungovernable to prove them and any person outside the North unfit to defend the constitutional order, national cohesion and republican values. Under these dire circumstances, the Northern Military establishment, their feudal and religious confederacy would step in and take back power through democratic or other means. This is the rationale of the unfolding drama in the election coming up in March. The culture of impunity and unchecked state supervised criminality against civilians during military rule under the Northern Military establishment in Nigeria was unprecedented. This is the culture of impunity that gave birth to claims for Sharia States in some Northern states and coordinated attacks against Christians in Northern Nigeria. The sharia claims emerged only when Olusegun Obasanjo a Christian from the West was elected as the first democratic President of Nigeria after Military rule. The political motivation for this move using religion a lethal weapon was not lost on keen observers of Nigerian politics nor to the Southern Military establishment and politicians or even Obasanjo. The hidden hand of his military peers from the North behind these acts of destabilization was obvious. This did not happen during the military rule dominated by the Northern Military establishment so also the so-called Fulani herdsmen slaughter of Christians and burning of Christian Churches in the North and the Middle Belt.
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