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| Boko Haram attacks killed nearly 1,200 people since 2013: Cameroon |
| 2016-01-16 |
| [AlAhram] 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... Islamists have killed nearly 1,200 people in neighbouring 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... 's far north since 2013, the communications minister in Yaounde said Friday. Issa Tchiroma Bakary told news hounds that the group had staged 315 raids in the border region during this period and carried out 32 suicide kabooms. "In total, 1,098 civilians, 67 of our soldiers and three police officials have been killed in these barbaric attacks by the Boko Haram terrorist group," Bakary said. Since July last year, Cameroon's far north has been hit by a series of attacks blamed on Boko Haram, which has pledged allegiance to ISIS group. This year, the number of attacks in the region has increased to a near daily basis with simultaneous incursions in some areas. "In the face of such unjustified and gratuitous harrassment our defence and security forces have inflicted heavy losses on the enemy," he said, adding that the group had been so weakened that it was now taking recourse to kabooms, often staged by women or girls. |
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