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Africa North
Policeman injured in Egypt's Arish after militants target his home
2015-06-20
[Al Ahram] Human rights activists say that 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...
ian authorities have been holding 84 children in detention after they raised a series of schools accused of supporting 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...
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Amnesia Amnesty International said Friday that some of the children are as young as 5 years old, and have been held for months without any charges.

Authorities say the Koranic schools they were attending in Cameroon's far north were actually training camps for the Boko Haram bad boy group.

Steve Cockburn, Amnesia Amnesty International's deputy regional director for West and Central Africa, urged Cameroonian officials to release the children to their parents.

Nearly all the children are under 15, the age at which they can face criminal charges under a regional human rights
When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much...
charter of which Cameroon is a signatory.
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