Five killed in Boko Haram Attack in Cameroon

Five civilians were killed in an overnight attack by jihadists in Blaram a village in the Blangoua district of Cameroon’s Far North region, sources said on Wednesday

Based in neighbouring Nigeria, Boko Haram has stepped up attacks in the vast Lake Chad region where the borders of Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria converge.

Cameroon says the group has carried out nearly 13,000 attacks on its territory since 2014, with the loss of “several thousand” lives.

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The insurgency has forced more than 250,000 people to flee their homes and triggered an influx of 60,000 people from Nigeria.

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