Cameroon boko haram
At least 17 killed in Cameroon separatist clashes – Amnesty
Amnesty International told Reuters that the victims died across several towns in the two Anglophone regions bordering Nigeria.
Suspected Boko Haram militants sprayed a village in remote Cameroon with automatic fire, killing 15 people and kidnapping eight others, officials said.
Many people fled the village for a camp near Kolofata that houses thousands displaced by Boko Haram violence, he said.
Another suicide bomb exploded in the town of Waza in north Cameroon on Saturday, but no casualties were reported other than the bomber, the sources said.
The US Africa Command said it had not received any reports of human rights abuses by Cameroonian forces at the base mentioned.
The Civilian Joint Task Force works alongside the Nigerian military to root out Boko Haram.
The money was to help about seven million people affected by the insurgent group in West Africa.
Cameroon commander General said the Islamist fighters were killed in the Nigerian town of Djibrila.
Two suicide bombers posing as food vendors further injured 112 others in a market in Meme yesterday.
Somalia’s president made the revelation during a security conference in Germany on Sunday.
Boko Haram, whose origins are in north Nigeria, has stepped up attacks in neighbouring Cameroon.
Two female suicide bombers killed 9 people near the town of Mora on Sunday.
A local government official said he was told the attacks were carried out by female suicide bombers.
In the latest violence, 56 people were killed by suspected Boko Haram gunmen at a village in Borno state.
Cameroonian state television said the bomber was a teenage girl in the northern Cameroonian town of Maroua.
32 others injured as Boko Haram steps up attacks on countries bordering northeast Nigeria
Red Cross officials said the bomber detonated the bomb during the church service in Potiskum.
The women and children arrived in the camp run by the National Emergency Management Agency on Saturday.
Nigeria’s army said it had rescued 200 girls and 93 women on Tuesday during a military operation.