He assured them that more adaptable equipment shall be made available in order that Boko Haram finds no save heaven in Cameroon.
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Kanar described the suicide bomber as being in her early 20s and he reiterated that she detonated the bomb as the refugees reached a checkpoint just outside Maiduguri. Deaths attributed to Boko Haram increased by 317 per cent in 2014 to 6,644.
Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman, Acting Director Army Public Relations, said the Army had received reports of some elements both within it and outside, especially through the use of the social media circle to ridicule the Nigerian Army and the person of the Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen. However, suicide bombings persist, causing heavy civilian casualties. In October, the city experienced six attacks that killed more than 154 people.
Cameroon said on Monday that four teenage suicide bombers had killed themselves and a family of five when they were stopped by self-defence fighters in that Fotokol town, near the border with Nigeria. The group’s brutal tactics rose to global prominence after more than 200 schoolgirls were abducted from their dormitories by Boko Haram militants in April 2014 in Chibok, an area in Borno. He told ATP that the city was experiencing a supply shortage.
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The group, which operates mainly in Nigeria, has pledged its allegiance to ISIL (also known as the Islamic State) as the Islamic State’s West Africa Province (ISWAP) in March 2015. It has forced at least 2.6 million people from their homes, killing at least 17,000 people and abducting hundreds, including the 276 schoolgirls kidnapped in Chibok village in April past year that prompted an global outcry. The U.S. State Department is considering declaring ISIS guilty of genocide in the group’s attacks on the Yazidi sect in Iraq.
