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| Africa Subsaharan |
| Suicide bomb attack kills 28, wounds dozens in Cameroon |
| 2016-01-26 |
| [Dawn] DOUALA: Suicide bombers targeting a town in northern 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... killed 28 people and maimed 65 on Monday, one of the worst attacks yet in the Central African nation as it struggles to contain an overflow of violence blamed on Nigeria's 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... State-owned radio and local officials said four kabooms struck a busy market and entrances to the town of Bodo, which borders the insurgency's strongholds in northeastern Nigeria. "The new toll is 28 dead and 65 maimed. Currently the situation is stable. Our security forces are in place," said one official, who asked not to be named. While there was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, northern Cameroon has become the scene of increasingly frequent suicide kabooms as Boko Haram has stepped up cross-border violence that has also spread into Chad and Niger. Twelve people were killed in an attack on Jan. 13 at a mosque in the town of Kouyape. Bodo, separated from Nigeria by only a small border river, was previously targeted at the end of December when twojacket wallah'> Regional armies mounted an offensive against the holy warriors last year that ousted them from many positions in northern Nigeria. In the wake of that operation, Nigeria, Chad, Niger, Cameroon and Benin pledged to set up a 8,700-strong regional force tasked with wiping out Boko Haram. The United States has also sent troops to supply intelligence and other assistance. The establishment of the force has been plagued by delays, however, and joint operations have yet to begin, leaving it up to national armies to tackle Boko Haram individually. In the absence of effective coordination, security sources have warned this can often mean that soldiers just drive the hard boyz across each other's borders. |
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