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At least one medical aid worker is believed to have died in a Boko Haram attack on Monday night in the Far North of Cameroon.
The attack was perpetrated on a health centre in the Alagarno locality, around Waza Park, L'Oeil du Sahel reports.
Huge medication is believed to have been looted in the attack.
This comes at a time when the fight against the terror group is growing rather shaky. Some Cameroonian soldiers fighting the insurgency went on strike recently due to concerns about unpaid money. Chad is threatening to pull out of the Multinational Joint Task Force battling the terror group. Chad has complained of growing financial difficulties.
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The Cameroonian army and Boko Haram terrorists were engaged in a violent, lengthy gunfight on Thursday morning.
The gunfight was taking place in the locality of Bargaram in the Hile Alifa District in Cameroon’s far north, reported authoritative Cameroonian newspaper, L’Oeil du Sahel.
The latest gunfight comes only a day after two Boko Haram suicide bombers blew themselves up in Cameroon, killing themselves and eight civilians.
A previous report had stated that three suicide bombers and five civilians died in those attacks on Wednesday night, but the latest death toll was eight civilians dead and two bombers killed.
Those suicide attacks took place in Kolofata, a town in Cameroon’s far north, not far from the border with Nigeria.
The blasts occurred on Wednesday evening local time, hours after a village head in Nigeria and his son were on Wednesday morning killed by Boko Haram in Cameroon’s far north where they had found refuge.
Identified only as Musa, the head of Doglo village in Nigeria, along with his son, were killed by Boko Haram terrorists at Fadje Fota, a locality in Cameroon’s far north, not very far from the Nigerian border.
They had arrived there exactly to avoid being caught in the Boko Haram atrocities, but ended up being killed anyway, as the terrorists continue to expand their quest to establish a caliphate in the Lake Chad Basin.
Boko Haram has wreaked havoc in Cameroon and Nigeria in recent weeks and months, killing many people in suicide bombings and gun attacks and putting a lie to claims by Nigerian leader Muhammadu Buhari that the ISIS’ partners in death in West and Central Africa had been defeated.
A landmine on Tuesday killed a Cameroonian soldier. Several bomb blasts have occurred in recent days and weeks in Nigeria and Cameroon.
In all, Boko Haram has massacred over 25, 000 people in Nigeria since 2009 and more than two million people displaced there are still in IDPs’ camps. Thousands of people have also been kidnapped and many remain missing till date, including more than100 Chibok girls abducted from their school dormitory in Chibok in 2014.
In Cameroon, more than 2000 civilians and hundreds of soldiers and policemen have been killed by Boko Haram since 2014 in over 500 suicide bombings and gun attacks.
Despite reassurances by longtime President of Cameroon, Paul Biya, that the terrorists who pledged allegiance of the Islamic State in 2015 would soon be wiped out, killings and displacements of civilians have continued.
Mr. Biya, who has been in power for 35 years and spends months on vacation abroad, has not set foot in Cameroon’s far north even though his countrymen have been experiencing hell brought to them by Boko Haram.
Worse, when over 30 Cameroonian soldiers were killed by Boko Haram, and their bodies brought close to the Presidential palace in Cameroon, Mr. Biya did not even attend an event organised to honour them.
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Two Boko Haram suicide bombers have blown themselves up in Cameroon, killing themselves and eight civilians.
The suicide attacks took place in Kolofata, a town in Cameroon’s far north, not far from the border with Nigeria, reported Cameroonian newspaper, L’Oeil du Sahel.
The blasts occurred on Wednesday evening local time, hours after a village head in Nigeria and his son were on Wednesday morning killed by Boko Haram in Cameroon’s far north where they had found refuge.
Identified only as Musa, the head of Doglo village in Nigeria, along with his son, were killed by Boko Haram terrorists at Fadje Fota, a locality in Cameroon’s far north, not very far from the Nigerian border.
They had arrived there exactly to avoid being caught in the Boko Haram atrocities, but ended up being killed anyway, as the terrorists continue to expand their quest to establish a caliphate in the Lake Chad Basin.
Boko Haram has wreaked havoc in Cameroon and Nigeria in recent weeks and months, killing many people in suicide bombings and gun attacks and putting a lie to claims by Nigerian leader Muhammadu Buhari that the ISIS’ partners in death in West and Central Africa had been defeated.
A landmine on Tuesday killed a Cameroonian soldier. Several bomb blasts have occurred in recent days and weeks in Nigeria and Cameroon.
In all, Boko Haram has massacred over 25, 000 people in Nigeria since 2009 and more than two million people displaced there are still in IDPs’ camps. Thousands of people have also been kidnapped and many remain missing till date, including more than100 Chibok girls abducted from their school dormitory in Chibok in 2014.
In Cameroon, more than 2000 civilians and hundreds of soldiers and policemen have been killed by Boko Haram since 2014 in over 500 suicide bombings and gun attacks.
Despite reassurances by longtime President of Cameroon, Paul Biya, that the terrorists who pledged allegiance of the Islamic State in 2015 would soon be wiped out, killings and displacements of civilians have continued.
Mr. Biya, who has been in power for 35 years and spends months on vacation abroad, has not set foot in Cameroon’s far north even though his countrymen have been experiencing hell brought to them by Boko Haram.
Worse, when over 30 Cameroonian soldiers were killed by Boko Haram, and their bodies brought close to the Presidential palace in Cameroon, Mr. Biya did not even attend an event organised to honour them.
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Custom officers at their Fotokol control duty post, are said to have seized 200kg of drugs which were destined for the Nigerian based terrorist group Boko Haram, KOACI.COM reveals.
The information was confirmed yesterday morning, by a security source serving as a member of the multinational mixed force, fighting against the insurgency, who preferred to remain anonymous.
According to this source, 3000 packets of tramadol were intercepted by agents of the Cameroon customs, working around the Fotokol border between Cameroon and Nigeria in the Logone and Chari division of the Far North Region.
Besides the packets of tramadol, Indian hemp which was on its way to Chad where Boko haram is trying to make their presence felt after pledging their allegiance to ISIS, was equally seized. The Indian hemp was put in gallons, sachets and cartons.
It is with these drugs that, the terrorist sect transforms the young minds of girls at a tender age, who become courageous enough to commit suicide without having to think twice. It is equally used on their baby boy fighters, whom they capture from villages. At the initial stage, they are still shaky, but when they must have been transformed with the narcotics, they are ready to shoot and kill anybody who stands on their way.
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A suicide attack on Wednesday day night claimed one life and injured nine others in the Far North region of Cameroon.
The incident happened in the locality of Sandawadjiri, according to Prime News.
The same news site reports that a previous attack had claimed only the life of the bomber in the locality of Amchide.
The Far North Region has been under perpetual and sporadic attacks from the terror group since 2014.
In under three weeks about ten or more attacks have hit the region. The most deadly was at the beginning of the month when 11 persons perished with dozens more injured.
But government appears to be making significant gains in recent months , especially as the terror group now carries out failed attacks that claim mostly the lives of its own militants.
At the early stage of the insurgency suicide bombings would claim scores of lives on almost a daily basis.
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Security sources say one soldier of the Rapid Intervention Battalion(BIR) was killed on Friday night breaking Saturday 10 June when a suicide bomber detonated the explosives.
Reports say the attacker had managed to evade security systems to enter the protected zone of BIR in Kolofata. Two other soldiers got injured, Cameroon-Info.Net reports.
At least three other attackers passed away on Friday without any other casualties.
In under two weeks the Far North has witnessed about ten attacks. The most deadly happened on 02 June and claimed 11 lives and left several persons injured.
Cameroon has been in this war against the terror group since 2014 . Paul Biya unilaterally declared war in France that same year.
As the soul of the fallen hero rests in peace, the fate of some of his colleagues is uncertain, as possible sanctions await from Biya for having staged a protest to demand unpaid bonuses. The protest occurred a week ago in the Far North. Later on the soldiers were airlifted to Yaoundé.
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