...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 frontier. Militant groups have long targeted military and civilian sites in the market town and its surrounding areas.
As many as 30 people have been killed after a bomb destroyed a crowded market on a bridge connecting the Nigerian town of Gamboru and Cameroon's Fotokol.
Authorities said more than 35 other people, including both Nigerians and Cameroonians, were maimed and taken to the local hospital in the wake of the attack on Monday.
"A young man picked up an bomb thinking that it was a piece of iron and it went
kaboom!, killing him and eight others," said Midjiyawa Bakari, the governor of the Cameroon's Far North Region.
MILITANT ATTACKS
Militant groups operating in the area have targeted Gamboru on multiple occasions since 2014. That year, 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...seized Gamboru and the nearby town of Ngala.
After a monthslong siege, Nigerian troops managed to wrestle back control of Gamboru with assistance from Chadian forces. But the bully boy group still launches attacks on military and civilian targets in the area.
Boko Haram's decadelong insurgency aimed at establishing a so-called caliphate has killed more than 35,000 people and displaced more than 2 million in the region.
An "Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
" regional ally that broke off from Boko Haram also stages attacks in the region.
No group has yet to claim responsibility for the attack.