The camp referred to is usually used “refuge” to the local population in case of attacks of Boko Haram.
At least 18 people have been killed in the night from Saturday to Sunday in an attack attributed to the jihadist group Boko Haram, against a displaced persons camp in the far North of Cameroon, announced a local official.
“it is obvious that It is Boko Haram that is responsible for this attack which has killed “at least 18 people,” said Sunday Mahamat Chetima Abba, the mayor of the district of Mayo-Moskota, where is located the camp of Nguetchewe attacked.
This camp is usually used “refuge” to the local population in case of attacks of Boko Haram, according to a city official who requested anonymity, but families have settled in a more or less perennial.
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Born in North-eastern Nigeria in 2009, Boko Haram has extended its action around the lake Chad, a vast expanse of marshy area at the border between Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad and Niger. In the Extreme-North of Cameroon, one of the poorest regions of the country, the United Nations has counted 52 attacks against civilians in the month of June. But the operations of Boko Haram in Cameroon, which are usually focused on stealing livestock and food, have not been as many deaths in recent months.
relative Calm before the attack
“there was a relative calm for the past few weeks, but they took advantage of their knowledge of the field to get around the monitoring points and the positions of the security forces. They surprised us,” said the mayor, also a traditional leader of the area.
“I counted 15 bodies, some dismembered, on-site and at the morgue of the hospital, where the wounded were evacuated,” said a witness to the attack who has asked to remain anonymous.
Seven days before the attack, the army of cameroon had claimed to have killed five fighters of the Boko Haram. The army of cameroon and other bordering countries of the lake Chad are fighting the group jihadist within a multinational Force mixed (DMF). But the effectiveness of this organization has in particular been criticized by the president of chad Idriss Déby Itno, who launched in march a large-scale operation to drive out Boko Haram from its territory.
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