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The terrorist group was reportedly gathered for Friday prayers in Balla village near the Sambisa Forest when two Nigerian Air Force jets struck them.
“Shekau was wounded in the bombings and is believed to be receiving treatment near the Nigerian border with Cameroon around Kolofata,” AFP quotes a source with contacts within Boko Haram.
“His deputy, Abba Mustapha, alias Malam Abba, was killed in the attack along with another key lieutenant, Abubakar Gashua, alias Abu Aisha,” the source added.
Another source, Babakura Kolo, a member of the civilian militia in the Borno state capital, Maiduguri corroborated the story to AFP.
The military has not released any statement yet but said on Tuesday that it conducted air strikes last Friday against a group of Boko Haram terrorists.
This is the fourth time a report of Shekau being struck during military operations has resurfaced.
Reports of his death came up in 2013 and 2014, which were immediately debunked through a video message from Shekau.
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Four Members of a civilian vigilant group were killed in the locality of Achigachia-Far North region of Cameroon, in clashes with Boko Haram last night.
The local self-defense groups who help the Cameroonian military with information, have often been targeted by the terrorist group.
Several dozen group members have been killed in recent months, as the Islamists have been targeting civilians believed to be cooperating with the authorities to root them out.
Authorities believe the vigilantes have been able to minimize the flow and infiltration of Boko Haram fighters in the northern part of the country.
Adama Simila wears a knife tied to his belt by a piece of rope, his only protection against Boko Haram, the Nigerian Islamist insurgents who have repeatedly targeted his home town in remote northern Cameroon.
While the threat once came from heavily armed, battle-hardened jihadists crossing from neighbouring Nigeria, today Simila knows he is more likely to die at the hands of a teenage girl strapped with explosives.
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At least four persons were killed in Cameroon on Wednesday morning, including a gendarme officer, after a Boko Haram suicide bomber attacked the locality of Kolofata not far from the Nigerian border. The attacker was among the four persons killed by his blast.
Cameroonian newspaper, L’Oeil du Sahel, said the attacker wrapped his deadly bomb in a mattress and placed it on the back of his bicycle.
He then pretended to be moving the mattress from one point to another when the bomb went off killing him, a gendarme (military police) named Moundjang Jérôme, and two other persons who were going to grind some grains, the newspaper said.
“The death toll for now is four dead, including one gendarme (military police),” said Cameroonian newspaper, L’Oeil du Sahel.
In another developing story, one person was killed and three girls abducted yesterday night in Mbereche, not far from Limani (Mayo-Sava) still in the same northern region of Cameroon.Locals and authorities blame the attack and abduction on Boko Haram.
Boko Haram has wreaked havoc in Cameroon since 2014, killing about two thousand people in over 500 suicide bombings and gun attacks and displacing hundreds of thousands.
Weeks ago, the terrorists the Nigerian leader Muhammadu Buhari once described as the “godless, mindless” militants threatened in a video to behead Cameroonian President, Paul Biya.
Mr. Biya, who has been in power for 35 years has never visited Cameroon’s far north and the terrorists may have wanted to cash into pent up anger already rising against a leader who spends months at his intercontinental hotel in Europe while his country is on fire.
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A suicide bomber has killed at least four people including a gendarme officer in an attack today in Cameroon's Northern town of Kolofata, according to local French daily newspaper L'Oeil du Sahel.
Residents said they heard a loud explosion earlier today at Kolofata- Northern Region. The bomber was suspected to be a Boko Haram member, the local newspaper wrote.
It seems to have become a daily affair in Cameroon’s far north region with regular bomb and gun attacks, which leave many dead and send thousands away from their ancestral land.
In all, Boko Haram has killed more than 2000 civilians in Cameroon since 2014 in over 500 attacks, including 50 suicide bombings. About 150 soldiers and policemen have also died during that unconventional war.
Thousands have been kidnapped and hundreds of thousands have been displaced. But Mr. Biya has not found time in three years to show solidarity to troops or populations running helter-skelter and wondering where the leadership is.
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Boko Haram terrorists stormed several localities in Cameroon on Saturday night and killed at least five people, a day after a suicide bombing killed one and injured five others in Kolofata, the country’s battered far north region.
Boukar Blama was killed in Sandawadjiri locality while four unidentified persons were murdered in Ganei, as reported by Cameroonian newspaper, L’Oeil du Sahel.
It seems to have become a daily affair in Cameroon’s far north region with regular bomb and gun attacks, which leave many dead and send thousands away from their ancestral land.
President Paul Biya of Cameroon who was quick to block Internet in the Souththeast and Southhwest regions of Cameroon after protests for equality and justice erupted there late last year, has not made any single trip to Cameroon’s far north since Boko Haram killers began massacring his people three years ago in 2014.
Rather, Mr. Biya spends months abroad every year, and once failed to attend the burial ceremony of over 30 Cameroonian soldiers who were killed by Boko Haram, and their bodies brought to Yaounde, the country’s capital where his presidential palace is.
Mr. Biya is in Geneva now and activists have promised to embarrass him should he fail to return home within seven days. But the octogenarian who has been in power for 35 years does not always succumb to threats by his countrymen.
In all, Boko Haram has killed more than 2000 civilians in Cameroon since 2014 in over 500 attacks, including 50 suicide bombings. About 150 soldiers and policemen have also died during that unconventional war.
Thousands have been kidnapped and hundreds of thousands have been displaced. But Mr. Biya has not found time in three years to show solidarity to troops or populations running helter-skelter and wondering where the leadership is.
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At least one person has been killed in Cameroon and many others injured following a suicide attack by Boko Haram on Saturday morning.
The attack took place in Kolofata, Cameroon’s far north region, close to the Nigerian border, said L’Oeil du Sahel newspaper. It was not clear whether the blast was carried out by a lone attacker or many.
“For now, one dead and many people injured,” L’Oeil du Sahel said.
Boko Haram has been wreaking havoc in Cameroon since 2014, killing about 2000 civilians and at least 150 soldiers and policemen and displacing hundreds of thousands of people in a war that does not seem to go away.
Presidents Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria and Paul Biya of Cameroon have vowed many times to crush the “godless, mindless” militants who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State in March 2015 and have since been modelling their barbarism after the Middle East killers, but those boasts have failed to bring peace and stability to the Lake Chad Basin.
Rather, the terrorists have been rising in strength and the Governor of Borno warned some weeks ago that help was needed now more than ever.
In a region where most people are stuck in squalor and hopelessness, the long term solutions are far away from being reached, especially because Mr. Biya for instance, has not deemed it fit to visit his war zone, even though thousands of his countrymen have been massacred there in three years, and President Buhari is battling with his health since January 19 when he left Nigeria for a medical vacation in London, returning only 50 days after and declaring that he might go back for more tests.
Mr. Biya is abroad again and has been given seven days by some activists to return home or face the consequences.
He spends many months abroad every year, and his country’s Northeast and Northwest regions have been without Internet for months now as punishment for demanding justice and equality in a country where the President has been in power for 35 years, and has refused to learn English language to communicate effectively with those in those two regions.
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