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Cameroon deports 2,000 Nigerians in fight against Boko Haram
[NEWS.YAHOO] Cameroon...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... has deported more than 2,000 Nigerians who were living in the country illegally as part of new security measures intended to prevent suicide kabooms by Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... jihadists, sources said Friday. Regional newspaper L'Oeil du Sahel reported that about 2,500 Nigerians had been "rounded up" in Kousseri, in the far north of Cameroon, and sent back to their country on Thursday. The weekly posted a photo on its Facebook page showing several departing trucks crammed with hundreds of passengers. A source close to regional authorities confirmed that "more than 2,000 'irregular' Nigerians have been expelled from Kousseri". Mey Aly, an official from a local NGO, said that most of the Nigerians "had fled the atrocities of Boko Haram" to take refuge in Cameroon. Thursday's deportations came just a day after Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari visited Cameroon for talks on how to combat the escalating regional threat from Boko Haram. Buhari and Cameroonian counterpart Paul Biya pledged to strengthen cooperation between their two countries in the fight against the krazed killers. Between July 12 and July 25, Cameroon's far north, on the border with Boko Haram's Nigerian strongholds, suffered three suicide attacks -- two in the regional capital, Maroua -- leaving at least 44 people dead. The Cameroonian border post at Kousseri -- which has been hit by two suicide attacks since June -- occupies a strategic position, with just a bridge separating it from Chad's capital N'Djamena. Posted by: Fred 2015-08-02 |
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