Thousands of people have been killed in neighboring Nigeria as a campaign by Boko Haram militants to impose their version of Islamic law enters its seventh year. The scene of the killings is 50 kilometers (30 miles) from the border with Cameroon and 85 kilometers (53 miles) northeast of Maiduguri, the biggest city in the northeast and birthplace of Boko Haram.
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Col. Sani Kukasheka Usman said the two were sappers, or combat engineers, who worked in an explosive ordinance unit in the northeast where Boko Haram commits most attacks. This is not the first terrorist attack on an IDP camp. A third suicide bomber surrendered to authorities after realizing her family was in the camp, officials said.
Ki-moon deplored the death of about 60 of internally displaced persons and injuries to many others.
The female bombers reportedly detonated explosives while the camp’s residents were queuing for rations on Tuesday morning.
In northern Nigeria, local government officials said as many as 1,000 women and girls were recently rescued from the village of Boboshe and taken to the Dikwa camp.
The suspect was injured in the attack and is now in custody, Ahmed said.
Boko Haram, which translates to “Western education is forbidden”, is a radical Islamic terrorist group which has existed in Nigeria since the early 1990s.
“Finally, the Vice President called on the people of Borno State and all Nigerians that the commitment of the federal government to safety of lives and property continues to be of paramount concern to the Buhari administration”.
But travel outside Maiduguri is not advised without military escort and one Borno senator last week claimed the Islamists still controlled half of the local government areas in the state. The woman confessed that she and the two bombers were sent by Boko Haram, and she warned that more bombers were on the way, he added.
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Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari has promised to end Boko Haram’s seven-year insurgency in the area. “We need academics to study Boko Haram and its impact on its immediate region and the world and we need think-tanks to analyze it and business leaders to invest in the affected countries to create jobs and economic opportunities for people”.
