Paul BiyaAt least seven persons were killed in Cameroon on Wednesday night by a suicide bomber along the border with Nigeria, a reliable report said.
Local newspaper, L’Oeil du Sahel, known for its accurate reports on Boko Haram in Cameroon for years, said the terror attack took place at about 9pm in a locality called Djakana around Limani in the country’s far north.
Cameroon, under the military joint task force, is one of the five countries fighting Boko Haram, a set of ruthless terrorists who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State in March last year and has since modelled its barbarism after the Middle East killers.
So far, Boko Haram has killed about 14,00 people in Cameroon since 2013 and displaced hundreds of thousands. In neighbouring Nigeria where Abubakar Shekau’s men are believed to still be strong in the Sambisa forest, more than 25,000 people have been killed since 2009 and about two million people remain displaced.
President Paul Biya of Cameroon has vowed many times to crush the Nigeria-based terrorists who are trying to create a caliphate along Lake Chad Basin, but with the killings continuing and attacks multiplying, many are wondering if the long serving leader who has been in power for 33 years can still protect a country bent by squalor, hopelessness, and now by terrorism.