Breaking! #BokoHaram Kills 7 In #Cameroon, Kidnaps Scores Of Women, Kills Ruling Party Chief While Campaigning

Boko Haram terrorists gunned down at least seven people in Cameroon’s far north region on Thursday and kidnapped scores of women, a day after killing Ali Souleiman, a chieftain of the ruling CPDM. He was killed while campaigning for reelection, said local newspaper, L’Oeil du Sahel. 

The latest attack took place in Kerawa, not very far from Doulo, where on Wednesday more than ten people were killed, including Souleiman.

That same day, Boko Haram militants attacked the army in Cameroon’s far north region and injured at least seven soldiers at Achigachia locality.

The Wednesday attack came only a day after a Boko Haram rocket hit and destroyed a security vehicle belonging to the military along Zigue-Dabanga axis on Tuesday.

The confrontations that followed left two Boko Haram members dead. Their corpses were found early yesterday.

Boko Haram has stepped up its attacks in Cameroon and Nigeria in recent months.

President Barack Obama deployed 90 troops to Cameroon last week Monday as an advance team of 300 as America wages into a war that seems to escalate by the day.

Since President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria was sworn into office in May promising to crush the “mindless, godless”militants, Boko Haram has killed about 2,000 people in the Lake Chad Basin and almost 4,000 this year alone.

A multi-national joint task force with headquarters in Ndjamena, Chad, is yet to fully take off as the various governments wr angle over who should get what.

On Tuesday, Buhari met in Abuja with the service chiefs but details of that meeting were not made public. It was the first time no statement was issued by the presidency after such a meeting.

In Cameroon, President Paul Biya met with David Rodriguez, the Commander of United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) on Friday, a day after meeting with members of his newly formed government, and vowed that the terrorists will be defeated.

But with 500 Cameroonians killed by Boko Haram between November last year and now, many are beginning to lose hopes in the assurances of the long serving 82 year old President.

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