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8 fishermen killed in Boko Haram attack in Cameroon
Xinhua, February 10, 2023
YAOUNDE,
Feb. 9 (Xinhua) -- Boko Haram has killed at least eight fishermen in
raids on communities around Lake Chad in Cameroon's Far North Region,
local and security sources said on Thursday.
Residents
and military sources said the militants ambushed and killed the
fishermen in a series of raids between Tuesday and Wednesday in the
Logone and Chari division of the region where the lake is located.
Corpses
of the slain fishermen were discovered by villagers on Wednesday, said
a traditional leader in the region who asked not to be named.
The
terror group has killed more than 2,000 people since it launched
attacks in Far North Region in 2014, according to security reports and
local non-governmental organizations.
Catholic Priest in Cameroon Says Parish “paralyzed” by Heavy Boko Haram Insurgency
By Agnes Aineah
Maroua, 03 April, 2022 / 9:05 pm (ACI Africa).
Boko
Haram militants are expanding their operations to rural villages in
Nigeria and on the border with other countries, a Catholic Priest in
Cameroon has said, adding that the militants have paralyzed pastoral
activities in a huge chunk of his Parish.
In
a message to Catholic Pontifical foundation, Aid to the Church in Need
(ACN) International, the Priest who the foundation does not name for
security reasons says that the arrival of militants in Oupaï, a town
that lies in the far North of Cameroon, had left locals with fear and
anxiety.
“Today
the people are full of fear and anxiety,” the Catholic Priest says in
the ACN Thursday, March 31 report, and adds, “We have received another
visit – one of many – from Boko Haram militants. They managed to reach
Oupaï by coming through Douval.”
The Boko Haram militants, the Catholic Priest says, killed two people, burned the houses and carried off clothing and animals.
“Since
mid-February four of the seven areas of the parish have been
paralyzed,” he is quoted as saying in the report, and adds, “We thought
they wouldn’t be able to reach Oupaï because it is right on top of a
mountain, but we were wrong!”
Mount
Oupaï is 1,494 metres high and lies close to the border with Nigeria,
in the far north of Cameroon. It falls in a region that is served by
the Catholic Diocese of Maroua-Mokolo.
“Five
areas have been affected. The villages of Bigdé, Douval and Vara are
already almost completely empty”, the Priest tells ACN, adding that the
terrorist cells have changed their modus operandi.
“In
the past they entered villages, ostentatiously yelling war cries. But
recently they have come discreetly, taking advantage of the full moon,
to surprise people in their sleep. They kill the fathers of the family
and the teenagers, especially the boys. Then they pillage the family’s
property and destroy everything they can’t carry off,” he says.
ACN
reports that towards the end of 2021, the Nigerian government announced
that Boko Haram members were being disarmed and reintegrated into
society.
“Through
several operations, thousands of insurgents, including fighters,
non-combatants and family members, were laying down their weapons in
different parts of Borno state, in north-eastern Nigeria. Just last
week, according to General Musa, a high-ranking Nigerian officer, 7,000
members of Boko Haram and its offshoot ISWAP (Islamic State’s West
Africa Province) surrendered,” the Catholic charity reports.
However,
according to information received by ACN, Boko Haram has shifted its
sphere of operations to more rural areas of Nigeria and especially into
the frontier regions of Cameroon and Lake Chad.
The
Pontifical charity reports that it had received information that since
September 2021, Boko Haram has been inflicting regular attacks in
Mutskar on the Nigerian border with Northern Cameroon.
These attacks, ACN reports, have devastated Church life and slowed down all pastoral activities.
According
to the Catholic charity, Boko Haram raiders seem to be interested in
cereals, goats and sheep, poultry and clothing, and “they strip the
people of everything they need to live.”
The
Catholic entity says, in reference to the embattled Cameroonian town,
“Existence was naturally precarious in a region where hunger is common
and resources are scarce, but now the population has been forced into
an exodus towards villages further north where they are exposed to
other types of insecurity.”
According
to the Catholic Priest who spoke to ACN, people who choose to stay in
the villages that fall under attack are “forced to sleep away from
their pitiful shacks in the cold and in terrible conditions.”
In his appeal for solidarity, the Catholic Priest says, “The situation is really worrying, and we count on your prayers.”
The
charity foundation reports that it has approved a project to support a
refugee camp for victims of Boko Haram in Minawao, in the diocese of
Maroua-Mokolo, in the far North of Cameroon.
“Funds
have also been allocated to print 2,000 Bibles in Mafa, the language
spoken in 12 Parishes in the same Diocese,” ACN indicates in the March
31 report, and adds, “The local Christians wish to improve their
knowledge to be better grounded in their faith and thereby be better
able to face the challenges posed by their increasingly radical Muslim
surroundings.”
Boko Haram attack kills 14 in northern Cameroon
Terrorists stormed village in Mayo Tsanaga area after Thursday midnight, says governor
Peter Kum and Rodrigue Forku
01.08.2021
Anadolu Agency
YAOUNDE, Cameroon
At least 14 people have been killed in a Boko
Haram attack in northern Cameroon, an official said on Friday.
“Twelve farmers from Mozogo
in the Mayo Tsanaga area were killed in an attack by
Boko Haram at around 1 a.m. [0000GMT],” Midjiyawa
Bakari, governor of the Far North Region, told Anadolu Agency.
“Boko Haram terrorists stormed the
village, firing shots in the air. Villagers fled to a park, where Boko Haram
fighters brought a girl strapped with explosives,” he said.
“Twelve villagers, the young suicide
bomber, and a Boko Haram terrorist were killed in the explosion, while two more
people were seriously injured.”
Based in Nigeria near the Cameroonian border,
Boko Haram terrorists regularly attack civilians and military posts in northern
Cameroon.
Boko Haram launched a bloody insurgency in 2009
in northeastern Nigeria but later spread its atrocities to neighboring Niger,
Chad, and Cameroon, prompting a military response.
More than 30,000 people have been killed and
nearly 3 million displaced in a decade of Boko Haram’s terrorist
activities in Nigeria, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of
Humanitarian Affairs.
Violence committed by Boko Haram has affected
some 26 million people in the Lake Chad region and displaced 2.6 million
others, according to the UN Refugee Agency.
15
killed in Cameroon Boko Haram attack
Reuters
August
2, 2020
Suspected militants from Islamist group Boko Haram
killed 15 people and wounded six others in a grenade attack on a camp for
displaced people in northern Cameroon on Sunday, a security source and a local
official told Reuters.
In the early hours, assailants threw a grenade
into a group of sleeping people inside the camp in the village of Nguetchewe, said district Mayor, Medjeweh
Boukar.
The camp is home to around 800 people, he said.
The village is located in the Mozogo district, close
to the Nigerian border in the Far North region. Mr. Boukar
was informed by residents that 15 had died. A security official confirmed the
attack and the death toll. The wounded were taken to a nearby hospital, they
said.
Over the past month there have been twenty
incursions and attacks by suspected Islamist militants, Mr. Boukar
said.
Boko Haram has been fighting for a decade to
carve out an Islamic caliphate based in Nigeria. The violence, which has cost
the lives of 30,000 people and displaced millions more, has frequently spilled
over into neighbouring Cameroon, Niger and Chad.
Cameroon: Ten killed in suicide attack in Far
North region
Published on 07.04.2020 at 11h51 by journalduCameroun
At least ten civilians are reported dead and
fourteen others injured, amongst whom ten seriously following a suicide bomb
attack Sunday night in a village in the Mayo Sava Division, Far North region of
Cameroon, a release from the Minister of Defence
confirms.
According to the release, the attack was
perpetrated by two young boys suspected of belonging to the Boko Haram Jihadist
group who activated their explosives late that Sunday night.
At about 10pm, two young boys found themselves
under a street lamb located in the vicinity of the Government Primary School
and the traditional chiefdom of the Blama Kamsoulou neighbourhood, Amchide area…carrying explosive
charges that they immediately activated part of the release reads.
The simultaneous explosion, the release
indicates, caused death and distress amongst the people present on the site.
Ten civilians dead including the suicide
bombers, and fourteen wounded out of which ten seriously.
The victims were reportedly taken to the Mora
District Hospital in the Far North region and an investigation opened by the
Territorial Gendarmerie Brigade to put more light on the suicide attack.
The Far North region of Cameroon has been hit
since 2014 by Boko Haram fighters making incursions from North East Nigeria.
The Islamic group has reportedly left more than
1,200 people dead and many others displaced in Cameroon since it began its
campaign.
Bible translator killed in horrific attack by
militants in Cameroon
Samuel Smith Thu
29 Aug 2019
The Christian Post
A Bible translator in Cameroon was butchered to
death on Sunday morning during an overnight attack while his wife's arm was cut
off, according to a ministry source.
Bible translator Angus Abraham Fung was among
seven people said to have been killed during an attack carried out by suspected
Fulani herdsmen sometime during the early hours of Sunday morning in the town
of Wum, according to Efi Tembon, who leads a ministry called Oasis Network for
Community Transformation.
Located in Cameroon's violence-ridden
Anglophone region where separatists are fighting for independence, Wum is among several localities where youth from the
nomadic Fulani herding community are being encouraged by government actors to
carry out attacks against local farming communities that support the separatist
rebels, Tembon said.
Tembon, who at times worked
on projects in Wum before he was forced to flee the
country after speaking to the U.S. Congress about the conflict in June 2018,
said he was told by sources in the town that Fulani herders stormed five homes
Saturday night into Sunday morning.
"They went into houses and pulled out the
people," Tembon explained to The Christian Post.
"They attacked in the night and nobody was expecting. They just went into
the home, pulled them out and slaughtered them."
Tembon said that he was not
informed as to how many people were injured in the attack, but only that Fung's
wife, Eveline Fung, had her arm cut off and is receiving a blood transfusion at
a local hospital.
As for the Bible translator, Tembon was told that Fung was cut to death with a machete.
"I don't know what prompted the attack.
They just came in and killed people at the home," Tembon
added, stating that most of the victims were older men.
Fung was in his 60s and served for years with
Wycliffe Bible Translators working on a New Testament translation in the Aghem language, a project that was completed in 2016.
"He was one of the key community leaders
in the whole tribe and he was part of the translation services and also
coordinated literacy efforts," Tembon explained.
"So, he was a huge part of the literacy work because their language had
never been written before. So, he was the one coordinating it and teaching the
language. So many people now can read and write the language as a result of
Angus' work."
Although the New Testament translation for the Aghem language was completed and over 3,000 copies have
been published, Tembon said that distribution has not
happened because of the war in the region.
"This war is a complete disruption of what
has been going on," Tembon stated. "We
haven't been able to dedicate it because of the war. We are doing what we call
listening groups. We have done the recording and started listening groups where
people come and listen to scriptures together in the community."
According to Tembon, Wum is a rural town of no more than 5,000 people. About 90
percent of the town's people consider themselves to be Christian but also
practice traditional religions. While the local people live and farm in the
town, Muslim Fulani herders live and graze their cattle on a hill outside the
town.
But because the area is controlled by
separatists, he claimed the government has encouraged and even armed Fulani to
carry out attacks against the separatist-supporting communities as a way of
pushing a "religious twist" to the conflict.
"The government knows that the local
people are supporting the local forces," he explained. "The Fulani
are Muslim and they are a minority in the area. And they always have a
farmer-grazer problem between the local people and the Fulani. The government
uses that now to get the Fulani on their side as an ally to fight the local
people. So they have been armed and protected by the
government and terrorize the local people."
Tembon noted that not all Fulanis are a party to such attacks, adding that some
Fulani have even joined the separatist rebels and some Fulani live in the town
with the rest of the local community.
Tembon stressed that Sunday's
attack is not the first to have happened in Wum. In
June, villagers in Wum were reportedly attacked and several homes were burned
down, including the palace of the local chief.
"They have burned churches and have killed
people in several areas," he said. "The local people have killed
their cows as revenge."
In May, Pastor Keloh
Elijah, a graduate of Cameroon Baptist Theological Seminary in Ndu and served at Bitu Baptist
Church, was reported to have been among many people killed during a military
invasion in the Mfumte area.
"Many other people were killed in the
area," Tembon said at the time. "The
military has search and lotted homes and burnt down several houses."
The Anglophone conflict began in 2016 as
separatists began protesting for autonomy because they felt underrepresented in
the majority-French-speaking central government. Since then, tens of
thousands of people have fled from their homes as a result of the
violence.
As many as 50,000 people have fled from
Cameroon in Nigeria, Ghana, and other neighboring countries while as many
700,000 are internally displaced, according to Tembon.
"The international community puts the number
of those killed at 2,000. But I believe they are intentionally keeping the
numbers low so as not to be accused of looking away," he contended.
"Personally, I do think the number of those killed cannot be lower than
7,000 people during the last three years."
Suicide Bombing in North Cameroon Kills 3,
Injures Several
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
YAOUNDE, Cameroon
Aug 21, 2016
A local official says a suicide bomber has detonated explosives at a Cameroon
market near the border with Nigeria, killing at least three people and injuring
at least 11 others.
Cameroon's Far North region governor, Midjiyawa Bakary, says a young man suspected to be from Nigeria
detonated his explosives Sunday morning after riding into the market in Mora on
his motorcycle at high speed.
The governor says three people were seriously injured and rushed to the local
hospital before being transferred to another town for specialized care.
No one has claimed responsibility.
The Nigeria-based Boko Haram pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group last
year. Since then, its members have stepped up attacks in Cameroon and other
neighboring countries that are helping Nigeria's military to try to defeat the
extremists.
Suicide bombers kill 32, wound dozens in
northern Cameroon
By Josiane Kouagheu
January 25, 2016
DOUALA, Cameroon (Reuters) - Suicide bombers targeting a town in northern
Cameroon killed 32 people and wounded 66 on Monday, one of the worst attacks
yet in the Central African nation as it struggles to contain violence blamed on
Nigeria's Boko Haram.
State-owned radio and local officials said four explosions struck a busy market
and entrances to the town of Bodo, which borders the Islamist insurgency's
strongholds in northeastern Nigeria, at around 10 a.m. (0900 GMT).
A local official, who said the death toll could rise further as a number of
those take to hospital were in serious condition, said the attackers had
slipped in under the cover of seasonal, dusty Harmattan winds.
"The Harmattan has been blowing for three days. ... The vigilance
committees weren't able to see the suicide bombers, who entered the village in
the middle of the night," he said, asking 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 attacks 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 two female suicide bombers blew themselves
up at the town entrance.
Boko Haram has killed thousands of people and driven more than 2 million people
from their homes during its six-year insurgency in one of the world's poorest
regions.
Regional armies mounted an offensive against the insurgents last year that
ousted them from many positions in northern Nigeria.
Following that operation, Nigeria, Chad, Niger, Cameroon and Benin pledged to
set up an 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 that can
often mean that soldiers just drive the militants across one another's borders.
Suicide Attack in Cameroon Kills 10
November 21, 2015
Voice of America
Security sources in Cameroon say at least 10 people were killed in a suicide attack
carried out by suspected members of the Islamist militant group Boko Haram.
Saturday's blast in the far northern region of Cameroon marked the latest
deadly attack by Boko Haram, which has targeted Cameroon, Chad, Niger and
Nigeria in recent months.
Boko Haram's bloody campaign for a strict Islamist state in northeastern
Nigeria has left thousands of people dead. Neighboring countries such as
Cameroon joined an offensive against the group earlier this year, and the
conflict spilled across their borders.
Cameroon has contributed to an 8,700-strong regional force led by Nigeria to
fight back against Boko Haram.
Double suicide attack kills 30 in north Cameroon
03
September 2015
YAOUNDÉ (AFP) –
At least 30 people were killed in the far north of Cameroon on Thursday in two
successive suicide attacks, military and police sources said.
The first bombing took place shortly before noon in the marketplace of Kerawa, a city on the border with Nigeria, said the
sources, speaking on condition of anonymity.
It was followed by a second attack about 200 metres
(yards) from a military camp, said a police officer who asked not to be
identified.
At least 30 people were killed, the sources said.
Some 50 people were killed in July in the same region in five suicide attacks
blamed on Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamist group.
Cameroon is part of a five-nation coalition fighting Boko Haram with Nigeria,
Chad, Niger and Benin.
Cameroon's far north region bordering Nigeria and Chad for the past two years
has seen regular Boko Haram raids, kidnappings and, more recently, suicide
attacks.
Suicide attacks killed at least 12 in northern Cameroon
July 13, 2015
YAOUNDE (Reuters) - At least a dozen civilians and a Chadian soldier were
killed in two suicide attacks by suspected Boko Haram militants in the northern
Cameroon town of Fotokol late on Sunday, a senior
Cameroonian military officer said.
The first explosion went off inside a bar near a Cameroon special forces (BIR)
camp just after sundown as many were breaking the Ramadan fast, the officer
said, asking not to be named.
"The second explosion followed as soldiers approached the bar," he
said.
L'Oeil du Sahel, a newspaper in northern Cameroon,
said the two attackers wore burqas.
Islamist group Boko Haram, which launched an insurgency six years ago to carve
out an emirate in northeast Nigeria, has also stepped up attacks in neighbouring Chad, Cameroon and Niger in recent months.
The group is suspected of launching a similar attack in Chad's capital, about
60 km (37 miles) east of Fotokol, on Saturday. A man
dressed in a woman's burqa blew himself up in the main market killing 15
people.