Tag: Cameroon

Female bomber ‘signature’ weapon of Boko Haram

April 21, 2016 Nigeria Boko Haram, Cameroon, Chibok girls, Damasak, Nigeria, Rape, Women

A new report reveals that the kidnapping of 270 Chibok girls in 2014 and the 400 women and children taken from Damasak in Nigeria last year are not isolated cases. It shows Boko Haram’s strategy aimed at using women – some as young as 10 – as suicide bombers in . . . Read More

Evangelicals targeted in Cameroon bomb attacks?

February 9, 2016 Cameroon Boko Haram, Cameroon, Nguetchewe, Union of Evangelical Churches

At least four people were injured in attacks by two suicide bombers on the evening of 8 Feb. in Nguetchewe, northern Cameroon. The attackers – a man and a woman – appear to have targeted members of Cameroon’s Union of Evangelical Churches (UECC). One attack was on the home of . . . Read More

Christian and Muslim leaders call for peace in Cameroon

February 4, 2016 Cameroon Boko Haram, Cameroon, Maroua, Nigeria

Christian and Muslim leaders in northern Cameroon have reiterated their call for tolerance and peace in the face of a surge of terror attacks by the Nigerian radical Islamic group Boko Haram. On 21 Jan., several prominent religious leaders gathered in the town of Mora to discuss peaceful coexistence. The . . . Read More

Boko Haram ‘more deadly terror group’ in 2014 than IS

November 20, 2015 Adamawa, Bauchi, Boko Haram, Cameroon, Chad, Denmark, Education, Gombe, Hamas, Islamic extremism, Islamic State, Israel, Kano, Lake Chad, London, Maiduguri, Middle East, Muhammadu Buhari, Niger, Nigeria, Paris, Quran, Terrorism, UN

Boko Haram was the world’s deadliest terror group in 2014, ahead of the self-proclaimed Islamic State, according to a report released on 18 Nov. by the Institute of Economics & Peace. It was responsible for 6,664 deaths in 2014, more than any other terrorist group in the world, according to the Global . . . Read More

Fleeing Boko Haram – nowhere to run, nowhere to hide

November 12, 2015 Abuja, Adamawa, Boko Haram, Borno, Cameroon, Chad, Chibok girls, EYN, Genocide, Jos, Kaduna, Niger, Nigeria, Samuel Dali, UN, West Africa, Yobe, Yola

A special report by IRIN, built on field visits to Nigeria’s north-eastern region which the military has re-taken from the Boko Haram insurgency, reveals an unprecedented humanitarian disaster in the Lake Chad Basin region. In Europe, Syrian refugees with the means head for their country of choice, armies of aid . . . Read More

Cameroon must deal with religious radicalism

September 7, 2015 Cameroon Boko Haram, Cameroon, Sufi, Wahhabism

The emergence of radical religious groups has dramatically changed the landscape in Cameroon, paving the way for religious intolerance, says the International Crisis Group (ICG), in a new report. Unlike its neighboring Nigeria and the Central African Republic, Cameroon has never experienced significant sectarian violence. However, ICG reports, the emergence . . . Read More

Boko Haram attacks intensify in Nigeria & Cameroon

August 2, 2015 Adamawa, Benin, Boko Haram, Borno, Cameroon, Chad, IDPs, Kidnapping, Maroua, Muhammadu Buhari, N'Djamena, Niger, Niger Delta, Nigeria, Refugees, West Africa

On 25 July, 20 people were killed when a 12-year-old girl blew herself up in a crowded bar in Maroua, northern Cameroon.World Watch Monitor The radical Islamist group Boko Haram has intensified its suicide bombing attacks in northern Nigeria and Cameroon in recent weeks. On Friday (31 July) a . . . Read More

Cameroonians killed in Boko Haram attacks

May 12, 2015 Cameroon Boko Haram, Cameroon, Nigeria

Boko Haram is suspected of killing at least 16 people and burning down 60 homes in villages on Cameroon’s northern border with Nigeria, close to where the militants still hold positions. Esaje Djewed, a witness, told World Watch Monitor that there were some Christians among the dead. Another witness, Maina Gabriel, . . . Read More

Polish cleric, 15 hostages, released

November 26, 2014 Cameroon Cameroon

The Cameroonian army says it has freed Polish Catholic priest Rev. Mateusz Dziedzic from his kidnappers. The priest’s captors say they voluntarily released Dziedzic and 15 other hostages as a goodwill gesture in hopes of political negotiations. Either way, the six-week hostage ordeal is over and the former hostages are . . . Read More

Cameroon pastor among 25 killed as Deputy Prime Minister’s wife kidnapped

August 4, 2014 Cameroon Adamawa, Boko Haram, Cameroon, Chad, Far North, Kidnapping, Maroua, Nigeria, Ramadan, Yaoundé

At least 25 people were killed in Cameroon, among them a church leader, as militants carried out two attacks in the far north of Cameroon at the end of July. In one attack in the town of Kolofata, the wife of the Deputy Prime Minister and her maid were kidnapped, . . . Read More

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