Cameroon: Civilians Flee After Deadly Boko Haram Attack
Voice of America
26 Jul 2021, 07:35 GMT+10
YAOUNDE, CAMEROON - Cameroon says hundreds of civilians have fled Sagme, a northern village on the border with Nigeria, after a Boko Haram attack Saturday that left eight government troops dead and 13 wounded, according to a press release. The Cameroonian military deployed to the area and said fighters were also killed.
Cameroon s military says about 90 heavily armed terrorists on six military tactical vehicles and several motorcycles entered the country from Nigeria Saturday, launching attacks on Sagme village.
Sagme is located in Cameroon s Far North region that shares a border with Nigeria s Borno state, said to be an epicenter of jihadist group Boko Haram.
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Residents fled to different host communities in Borno State and neighbourhood countries. Wulgo is a stone throw to Cameroonian territory.
The government’s spokesman, Malam Isa Gusau, said in the statement that Governor Babagana Umara Zulum, on Thursday, travelled to the town where he supervised the distribution of cash relief to male and female heads of resettled families and interacted with all residents to identify their problems with a view to addressing them.
The governor inspected educational and health facilities, and gave instructions for the rehabilitation of two primary schools as well as a primary healthcare centre, to address the needs of the community.
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SDP says agitations won’t stop until social justice is in place
Kingsley Nwezeh
Supporters of a Yoruba secessionist agitator, Sunday Adeyemo otherwise known as Sunday Igboho, Wednesday, thronged a Benin Republic Appeal Court (Palais De Justice, Cour D’Appel De Cotonou) in solidarity, following his arrest on Monday by security agents working with International Police (Interpol) in that country.
Curiously, however, a former Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen. Tukur Buratai, has been fingered in Igboho’s arrest after he allegedly wrote a letter to Benin authorities ahead of Igboho’s trip and consequently facilitated his arrest.
Buratai, who is Nigeria’s Ambassador to Benin Republic, allegedly knew that Igboho’s exit route would be a neighboring country and therefore pulled a fast one, which culminated in his arrest alongside his wife, Ropo, a German, at the Benin Airport on their way to Germany.