04-09-2021
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The radical Islamic terror group Boko Haram has increased its attacks on civilians in towns and villages in the Far North region of the central African country of Cameroon since December 2020, killing at least 80 people, according to an international watchdog s report released this week.
Human Rights Watch reported in addition to killing dozens in the region, the militants have also looted hundreds of homes. The watchdog said the Cameroon government should instigate firm steps to protect communities and respond to the worsening violence by putting a security force in the field. Boko Haram is waging a war on the people of Cameroon at a shocking human cost, said Ilaria Allegrozzi, senior Africa researcher at Human Rights Watch. As Cameroon s Far North region increasingly becomes the epicenter of Boko Haram s violence, Cameroon should urgently adopt and carry out a new, rights-respecting strategy to protect civilians at risk in the Far Nort
The continent is currently witnessing a spree of terror attacks inspired by ISIS-affiliated groups.
On November 6, a CIA officer, formerly of the Navy s elite SEAL Team 6, was killed in an explosion set off by the Somali-based Islamic terror group al-Shabaab.
The CIA operative, along with four Somali officers, reportedly died during a raid on the group s suspected hideout south of Mogadishu.
Four days later, on November 10, ISIS-linked fighters behead 50 people in a soccer stadium in northeast Mozambique.
Then on November 29th, Boko Haram Islamic fighters slaughter 110 Nigerian farmers, men and women, attacked in their rice fields.
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