Nigeria’s military said more than 200 members of Boko Haram surrendered on Friday as troops regained control of the northeastern town of Banki, from where attacks had been launched into Cameroon.
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The State Department will funnel the “defense articles and services” and “military education and training” to the Lake Chard Basin countries of Benin, Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria, National Security Council spokesman Ned Price said.
Since 2009, Boko Haram has killed more than 15,000 people in a campaign of suicide bombings, mass kidnappings, executions and ground assaults on remote villages and military bases.
But despite this, Mark, and numerous 2.1 million civilians displaced by Boko Haram, insists there has been a shift in the counterinsurgency efforts – and he credits President Muhammadu Buhari. The militants also attacked an infirmary near a Cameroonian military camp, Badjeck said.
Earlier this year, Niger banned the cross-border fish trade with Nigeria after militants took advantage of trucks carrying fish to travel discretely between the countries.
In neighboring Adamawa state, a university opened after Boko Haram was forced out by the military has hired local hunters to defend students and staff from Boko Harm attacks.
His absence sparked fresh rumours about whether he was still alive or had been deposed as leader, with other videos this year fronted by an unknown rebel under the name Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP).
“Apart from arms and ammunitions, bows and arrows recovered from Bulama Modu, the kingpin, he confirmed that the terrorists also gave him a horse to enhance his deadly pursuits”, Usman told Punch. He however noted that the warning was to inform a specific group of people whose activities are inimmical to our collective quest for peace as enumerated in the release.
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Therefore, he said, such individuals and groups should be warned in unmistakable terms that anyone found would be dealt with accordingly.
