Boko Haram: Cameroon To Execute 109 Boko Haram Members Soon

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Cameroonian investigative journalist, Bisong Etahoben, has stated that the country’s authorities have sentenced 109 supposed Boko Haram members to death.

Nigerians in their reactions praise the government of the neighbouring country for this decision.
Cameroon is among the five West African countries that have been badly affected by the attacks of the deadly Boko Haram sect.

Muhammadu Buhari during his inauguration on May 29, 2015, promised to wipe out the insurgents.

He gave his army chiefs a three-months deadline to end the insurgency in Nigeria.

Buhari in December last year announced that Nigerian army has ‘technically defeated’ the terrorists. However, it seems that the war is still far from the end.

Source: Boko Haram: Cameroon To Execute 109 Boko Haram Members Soon – LATEST NIGERIA NEWS

 

[waltky]

Nigerian refugees raped by police, officials, security force...

HRW: Boko Haram refugees raped by officials, security force
October 31, 2016 — Nigerian government officials, soldiers and police are raping and sexually exploiting women and girl refugees from Boko Haram, instead of protecting them, Human Rights Watch said in a report Monday.

Shortages of food, medicine and clothing in refugee camps compounds the vulnerability of victims who include many unaccompanied girls and women orphaned and widowed by the 7-year uprising, the New York-based organization said. In July, it documented the rapes and sexual exploitation of 37 females, including four who said they were drugged and then abused. Some described having sex in exchange for food for their children, including a woman at a camp that had received no food for about seven weeks.

Camp guards demand sexual favors to allow women out of the gates to beg or buy food, even though U.N. guidelines say there should be freedom of movement in camps, the report said. It quoted some victims saying their abusers abandoned them when they became pregnant. "I just feel sorry for the baby because I have no food or love to give him," it quoted a raped 16-year-old as saying. "I think he might die."

The report quoted a health worker at a camp housing 10,000 as saying the number of people needing treatment for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections had risen from 200 cases in 2014 to more than 500 in July 2016. For months, aid workers have been reporting such abuse only to have the Emergency Management Agency, which manages the camps, deny it.

Human Rights Watch said it met Sept. 5 with the minister of women affairs, Sen. Aisha Jumai Alhassan, who promised to investigate and respond. She never did. But on Monday, President Muhammadu Buhari ordered Nigeria's police chief and governors of affected states to investigate immediately. A statement promised his government will "do its very best" to protect "these most vulnerable of Nigerian citizens."

HRW: Boko Haram refugees raped by officials, security force

 

[waltky]

Boko Haram crushed...

Nigeria: Boko Haram is crushed, forced out of last enclave
Dec 24,`16 -- The Boko Haram extremist group has finally been crushed - driven from its last forest enclave with fighters on the run and no place to hide, Nigeria's president declared Saturday.

His victorious statement came as the Islamic State group, with which one faction of Boko Haram is allied, claimed a successful attack on an army barracks in northeast Nigeria's Yobe state "killed and wounded many." The communique on social media said the attack took place Thursday, the same day President Muhammadu Buhari said troops defeated Boko Haram in its Sambisa Forest stronghold in neighboring Borno state. It was an indicator that despite Buhari's announcement, Nigeria is unlikely to see an end soon to the deadly suicide bombings, village attacks and assaults on remote military outposts in northeastern Nigeria carried out by the country's homegrown Islamic extremist group. Already, there are reports that the insurgents have been regrouping in Taraba and Bauchi states, south of their northeastern stronghold in Borno state, and taking advantage of a decades-old conflict in central Nigeria between mainly Muslim nomadic cattle herders and sedentary Christian farmers.

In a statement, Buhari commended Nigerian troops for "finally entering and crushing the remnants of the Boko Haram insurgents at Camp Zero," which is located deep within the heart of Sambisa Forest. He announced the "long-awaited and most gratifying news of the final crushing of Boko Haram terrorists in their last enclave" and declared "the terrorists are on the run, and no longer have a place to hide." The Sambisa Forest was where Boko Haram was believed to be holding some of more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped in April 2014 from a school in the town of Chibok - a mass abduction that brought the Islamic extremists world attention and sparked an international social media campaign #BringBackOurGirls. "Further efforts should be intensified to locate and free our remaining Chibok girls still in captivity. May God be with them," Buhari said.

Nigerian President elect, Muhammadu Buhari, arrives for his Inauguration at the eagle square in Abuja, Nigeria. The Boko Haram extremist group has finally been crushed — driven from its last forest enclave with fighters on the run and no place to hide, Nigeria's president declared​

Nigerian troops have freed thousands of Boko Haram captives this year, but none of the Chibok girls among 276 seized from a government boarding school. Dozens of girls escaped within hours of their abduction. In October, 21 Chibok girls were freed through negotiations between the government and Boko Haram, brokered by the Swiss government and the International Red Cross. In May, one Chibok girl escaped on her own. Some 197 remain missing.

The freed girls have indicated that several others have died in captivity from things like malaria and a snake bite. Boko Haram's seven-year Islamic uprising has killed more than 20,000 people, spread across Nigeria's borders, driven some 2.3 million people from their homes and created a massive humanitarian crisis. The U.N. has warned that 5.1 million people are in danger of starving in northeast Nigeria, including in areas too dangerous to reach because of Boko Haram ambushes.

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Freed Chibok girls reunited with their families for Christmas
Sat, 24 Dec 2016 - More than 20 Chibok girls freed in Nigeria by Boko Haram reunite with their families for Christmas.

It is the girls' first return home since they were kidnapped from their school in Chibok in April 2014. The young women were freed in October after Switzerland and the International Red Cross made a deal with Boko Haram. Since then, the 21 girls have been held in a secret location for debriefing by the Nigerian government. One of the girls, Asabe Goni, 22, told Reuters news agency it was a "miracle" that she was home again. Helping her mother prepare for Christmas, she said she was excited to go to church on Christmas Day. "I never knew that I would return (home)," she said simply. "I had given up hope of ever going home."

The 21 Chibok girls released by the militant group Boko Haram have returned home for Christmas​

Of the 276 students kidnapped, 197 are still reportedly missing, and negotiations for their release are under way. Many of the Chibok girls were Christian, but were encouraged to convert to Islam and to marry their kidnappers during their time in captivity. Ms Goni said some were whipped for refusing to marry, but otherwise they were well treated and fed, until food supplies recently ran short. After the deal in October, the girls' captors announced that any girl who wanted to be released should line up. Ms Goni was ill and too exhausted to move as the others scrambled into formation - but she soon learned she would be among the lucky few to leave.

Boko Haram 'ousted from forest bastion'

"I was surprised when they announced that my name was on the list," she said. Her joy was lessened, however, when she was forced to leave behind her cousin Margaret, with whom she had lived since childhood. The young woman was interviewed at her family's home in the northern city of Yola, surrounded by her father, stepmother, five siblings, and several neighbours. "Some of the other girls left behind started crying," Ms Goni said. "But the Boko Haram men consoled them, telling them that their turn to go home would come one day." Before the girls' release, there had only been one confirmed release of a student kidnapped from Chibok.

On 24 December, Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari said the army had driven Boko Haram's militants from the last camp in their Sambisa forest stronghold. "The terrorists are on the run and no longer have a place to hide," Mr Buhari said in a statement. The army has been engaged for the last few weeks in a major offensive in the forest, a huge former colonial game reserve in north-eastern Borno state. There has been speculation that some of the Chibok girls are being held in the forest, after it was named by a small number of those who escaped. Mr Buhari said that efforts to find the remaining girls were being intensified.

Freed Chibok girls reunited with their families for Christmas - BBC News

 

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Cameroonian investigative journalist, Bisong Etahoben, has stated that the country’s authorities have sentenced 109 supposed Boko Haram members to death.

Nigerians in their reactions praise the government of the neighbouring country for this decision.
Cameroon is among the five West African countries that have been badly affected by the attacks of the deadly Boko Haram sect.

Muhammadu Buhari during his inauguration on May 29, 2015, promised to wipe out the insurgents.

He gave his army chiefs a three-months deadline to end the insurgency in Nigeria.

Buhari in December last year announced that Nigerian army has ‘technically defeated’ the terrorists. However, it seems that the war is still far from the end.

Source: Boko Haram: Cameroon To Execute 109 Boko Haram Members Soon – LATEST NIGERIA NEWS

 

[longknife]

Congratulations to the government for finally rooting out these scumbags. Hope every one of them eats a bullet.

Wonder how much clandestine US help they got

 

[waltky]

Cameroon makin' a monkey outta Boko Haram...

Cameroon Claims to Have Freed 5,000 Boko Haram Captives
March 14, 2017 — Cameroon says it has killed at least 60 Boko Haram fighters and destroyed a stronghold for the militant group, as well as a huge stock of seized weapons, in fighting along its northern border.

Issa Tchiroma Bakary, Cameroon minister of communication and a government spokesperson, said, since January 26, thousands of Cameroon soldiers, supported by Nigerian troops, have launched raids on Boko Haram strongholds in the Mandara mountains, freeing more than 5,000 people, including women and children, from captivity. Issa Tchiroma said at least 60 terrorists have been killed since the offensive began in late January.

More than 20 suspects have been arrested and are helping the Cameroon and Nigerian militaries in their investigations, he added. He also said troops have destroyed a refuge center for the insurgents in the Mandara highlands, a petroleum depot and an explosives factory, as well as the residence of a Boko Haram leader, which also served as a hideout for the terrorists, and a huge consignment of weapons, vehicles and motorcycles.

Cameroonian soldiers from the Rapid Intervention Brigade stand guard amidst dust kicked up by a helicopter in Kolofata, Cameroon​

Issa Tchiroma said at least 5,000 people were freed, including the elderly. They were transported to a camp for displaced people in the Nigerian town of Banki and are receiving treatment from both Cameroon and Nigerian military health workers, he said. No soldiers were killed in the offensive, Issa Tchiroma said. In December last year, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari announced troops had chased Boko Haram militants out of their key remaining base in the Sambisa forest, another former stronghold that straddles Cameroon’s border with Nigeria.

Cameroon and Nigeria that same month reopened the border between the two countries for the first time in three years. Cameroon has since called for vigilance and collaboration between its military and the population, stating that the insurgents had resorted to large-scale suicide bombings as their firepower had been greatly reduced. Boko Haram's six-year insurgency has killed more than 25,000 people and displaced nearly 2.3 million, according to rights groups and the United Nations.

Cameroon Claims to Have Freed 5,000 Boko Haram Captives