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Another suicide bomber has carried out a failed attack in the Far North region of Cameroon, precisely In Bouvare (Kolofata). No other casualties besides the bomber.
The attack happened in the evening of Friday after three other attackers had attempted other failed attacks in the same region earlier in the morning.
So, in under 24 hours four suicide bombers have passed on without any additional lives in the region.
The strength of the terror group is apparently dwindling. At the beginning in 2014, such suicide attacks would claim scores of lives, both civilians and soldiers.
But the last series of attacks in under four days have been fruitless altogether. A woman and an 8-year-old girl blew themselves up on Wednesday and injured only two persons.
This is coming at a time when some of the soldiers engaged in the war are about to face sanctions from Biya for having staged a protest for unpaid bonuses and other expenses.
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Three Boko Haram bombers were killed in Cameroon on Friday morning by their own bombs, local newspaper, L’Oeil du Sahel, reported, two days after another set of killers attacked the same area.The newspaper said the two bombers were killed in Kolofata, a town in Cameroon’s far north region, when the explosive devices they were carrying exploded before their attack. No one else was hurt. A third was killed in Mora at about 3am Friday.
The latest attack came two days after two bombers, a woman and an 8-year old girl blew themselves up in Galbi, an area in Mora, also in Cameroon’s far north. Two civilians were injured.Boko Haram has been wrecking havoc in Cameroon and Nigeria and on Wednesday night, the terrorists killed about 14 people in the northeastern Nigerian town of Maiduguri and injured at least 24 others.
It was the biggest and most severe attack in Maiduguri in 18 months. The Boko Haram insurgency started in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state in 2009 before extending to Cameroon, Chad and Niger.
So far, over 2000 have been murdered by Boko Haram in Cameroon. Millions of people have been displaced and thousands of women, girls and boys have been abducted.
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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Suspected Boko Haram fighters attacked the city of Maiduguri in northeast Nigeria on Wednesday, the Islamist militant group's most serious assault on the regional capital in a year and a half.
The raid comes six months President Muhammadu Buhari said Boko Haram had "technically" been defeated by a military campaign that had pushed many jihadists deep into the remote Sambisa forest, near the border with Cameroon.
Aid workers and Reuters witnesses reported explosions and heavy gunfire for at least 45 minutes in the southeastern and southwestern outskirts of the city. Thousands of civilians fled the fighting, according to Reuters witnesses.
Nigeria's military said it had contained the attack.
"The situation in Maiduguri is under control," it said in a statement, urging the city's inhabitants not to panic.
Maiduguri in Borno state has been the epicentre of the eight-year fight against Boko Haram but has been relatively free of violence since the beginning of 2016, barring sporadic suicide bombs on its outskirts.
Fighter jets roared overhead as soldiers and police sped towards the scene, the Reuters witnesses said. Three children were hit by bullets, one witness said.
More than 20,000 people have been killed in Boko Haram's campaign to establish a mediaeval caliphate in the Lake Chad basin. A further 2.7 million have been displaced, creating one of the world's largest humanitarian emergencies.
Despite the military's success in liberating cities and towns, much of Borno remains off-limits, hampering efforts to deliver food aid to nearly 1.5 million people believed to be on the brink of famine.
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Reports reaching Cameroon Concord say at least two persons have died and two others have sustained injuries in a suicide attack in the Far North. The dead were the two attackers.
The tragedy occurred this Wednesday morning.
The attackers included a woman and a little girl of about eight who wore suicide belts.
Today's attack occurred in a locality called Galbi.
More details are yet to drop in.
Last week, another attack claimed 11 lives, including the two bombers, and left dozens more injured, still in the Far North.
Boko Haram, A vicious terrorist group operating in that part of the nation, is usually blamed for such attacks.
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A suicide bombing in Cameroon on Thursday morning left two dead and two injured in another attempt by Boko Haram terrorists to sow fear and forge ahead with the desperate building of their bloody caliphate.
That caliphate, they hope, would spread from Nigeria and extend to Cameroon, Chad and Niger in the Lake Chad Basin.
Today’s suicide attack took place in Djakana village of Cameroon’s far north, along the border with Nigeria where Abubakar Shekau’s men are based and from where they launch deadly attacks in this West and Central African region.
Djakana is located in the town of Mora, the department of Mayo-Sava in Cameroon’s far north.
The two bombers died instantly in their own attack and injured two civilians who are members of the vigilance force in Djakana, reported Cameroonian newspaper, L’Oeil du Sahel. It was a provisional death toll, the newspaper said.
Bomb and gun attacks in Nigeria and Cameroon have escalated in recent weeks, a method adopted by ISIS-partners in West Africa, after losing much of the land they were controlling in the build up to Nigeria’s 2015 election.
It is not clear what Boko Haram wants. In videos, their leaders claim they are fighting against ‘sinful Christianity’ and trying to build a Caliphate where strict Islamic laws and life would apply. But, in practice, Boko Haram has bombed mosques, churches, market places, killing many Christians, Muslims and people of other faiths.
Many believe that the attacks in the Lake Chad region are connected to oil below the ground and sponsored by Western or Eastern forces where the heavy weapons are being manufactured.
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Four women have been abducted by terrorist group Boko Haram in Cameroon.
The women had gone to fetch water in the locality of Vreket in the Mayo-Noskota department when they were kidnapped by Boko Haram on Monday morning, said Cameroonian newspaper, L’Oeil du Sahel.
In the past few days, several people have been killed in various attacks by the Nigeria-based terror organisation.
The group has wreaked havoc in Cameroon since 2014. At least two thousand people have been killed there in over 500 bomb and gun attacks.
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