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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Suspected Boko Haram fighters attacked the city of Maiduguri in northeast Nigeria on Wednesday, the Islamist militant group's most serious assault on the regional capital in a year and a half.
The raid comes six months President Muhammadu Buhari said Boko Haram had "technically" been defeated by a military campaign that had pushed many jihadists deep into the remote Sambisa forest, near the border with Cameroon.
Aid workers and Reuters witnesses reported explosions and heavy gunfire for at least 45 minutes in the southeastern and southwestern outskirts of the city. Thousands of civilians fled the fighting, according to Reuters witnesses.
Nigeria's military said it had contained the attack.
"The situation in Maiduguri is under control," it said in a statement, urging the city's inhabitants not to panic.
Maiduguri in Borno state has been the epicentre of the eight-year fight against Boko Haram but has been relatively free of violence since the beginning of 2016, barring sporadic suicide bombs on its outskirts.
Fighter jets roared overhead as soldiers and police sped towards the scene, the Reuters witnesses said. Three children were hit by bullets, one witness said.
More than 20,000 people have been killed in Boko Haram's campaign to establish a mediaeval caliphate in the Lake Chad basin. A further 2.7 million have been displaced, creating one of the world's largest humanitarian emergencies.
Despite the military's success in liberating cities and towns, much of Borno remains off-limits, hampering efforts to deliver food aid to nearly 1.5 million people believed to be on the brink of famine.
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The Biya's regime hurriedly launch a vicious terrorism bill that was aimed at targeting Anglophone nationalism.
Those who are being detained in Yaoundé and purportedly charged with terrorism were instead kidnapped by state thugs without any weapons.
The state must show proof how these people asking for justice as well as denouncing marginalization have suddenly become terrorist even without arms.
The state thugs have in a continuum being arresting people of the erstwhile Southern Cameroons tagging them as terrorist
Sufficient proof have been presented to denounce the purported claim that we are one state and that state is indivisible.
There is no binding document to portrays that oneness and the overwhelming state fraud has been exposed.
The state of La Republique Du Cameroun orchestrated fraud by manipulating the federal constitution which was not even crafted in the spirit of justice and transparency.
Today being in this mess where by its flaws have only continued to ruin the already ruined state image,the state badly needs to admit that it has failed in handling the citizens of the erstwhile Southern Cameroons with fairness, harmony and concord.
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Bibixy and several other Anglophones arrested several months ago appeared today in the Yaoundé Military Tribunal. But the presiding judge denied them bail. On his way from the tribunal, Bibixy, father of the Coffin Revolution, reiterated aloud that Southern Cameroon would regain independence.
Today,Mancho BBC through his unkempt look showcased how shabby the state of La Republique Du Cameroun is to the world.
Being as ignoramus a people like an iguana, those who purportedly are rulers show cased an unclad Mancho BBC depicting a shabby nation.
Being handcuffed when he is no treat to anybody showcased primitivism and backwardness of a junta that still thinks it can humiliate, disgrace and disfigure the erstwhile people of Southern Cameroons.
It's so saddening and demeaning that the state through its imposters tagged the gendarmes tacklessly nailed the coffin of the state.
Such bastardized action and mannerism shocked the world and disgraced the state of La Republique Du Cameroun as being barbaric and cruel to its purported citizens.
It defeats the falsehood of oneness and one and indivisibility. If Mancho BBC was of the French speaking Cameroon extraction, he won't have been kidnapped and tried in court.
This has happened and is happening because the legality of such actions is not founded.
Where is the independence of the Judiciary and where is the state of law trumpeted on the state propaganda machine the CRTV?
If the judge had humane qualities,he would have asked for such fettters to be removed from Mancho BBC, who is only an accused and not a criminal.
I have asked to know whether this barbaric attitude condoned by the half baked military judges can equally be meted on Francophones who have embezelled state funds or who have murdered?
The blood of the people of Southern. Cameroons is crying for vengeance from God,just like the blood of Abel cried for vengeance against Cain.
The Gendarmes, Police as well as the blood thirsty BIR should be ready to face God's wrath and judgement for the atrocities committed against a peaceful and peace loving people.
I strongly believe that there is a sinister plan that must be bugged,aimed at wiping out the entire people Southern Cameroons. This conviction was made much stronger yesterday when two trucks of French thugs,the Gendarmarie stormed Atuaakom and kidnapped eleven people. These people were in an off License drinking and chatting about the fire accident at Top star Hotel and the attacks on the students. How can people be kidnapped and taken to an unknown destination when the led investigation report posit a fire accident provoked by negligence. This falsehood denounces the old manipulation song of National unity. There can't be harmony,, Concord and mutual understanding when there is uncalled for cruelty and savagery from our purported brothers.
With Mancho's bravery today, coupled with the fact that he and the rest of the detained activists are on hunger strike, Mark Bareta decided that Monday's will be "papa and mami water ghost town".
He warns that violators of the move "shall be visited".
"The ghost shall spare none," he added.
Monday 12 marks the start of the written part of the controversial GCE examinations in Cameroon.
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Barrister Felix Nkongho Agbor Balla, Fontem Neba, Mancho Bibixy and 26 other Anglophones have regained their respective detention centres in Yaounde after the Military Tribunal rubbished an appeal for release of the leaders of the disbanded Anglophone Civil Society Consortium by Judicial Supervision.
Colonel Abega Eko Eko Mbazoa who is the presiding judge read the ruling as crowds thronged the court to savor what is now an elusive freedom for the Anglophone leaders.
Today's hearing lasted less than 20 minutes and the matter was adjourned to the 29 of June 2017. The Defense Counsel that was planning to launch a new appeal for the provisional release of the 26 others previously refused bail and sympathizers of the detainees have expressed shock at the Judge's ruling.
The high point of today's court drama was Mancho Bibixy who arrived at the Military Tribunal, handcuffed and under heavy armed guard. He looked shaby, barefooted and pale. He stormed the court room on his buttocks as he had joint other Anglophones in the indefinite hunger strike. But, he remained defiant saying even death can't stop his enthusiasm for the Southern Cameroon Course.
We are yet to get the main reason behind the judge's refusal .But legal experts were clear that it was not proper proposing judicial supervision to only two out of 29 detainees held under similar charges. Even if that were to happen, the leaders had insisted on an unconditional release of all those arrested in connection with the socio - political upheavals in the Anglophone regions. It is also alleged in some quarters that the Prosecuting counsel had filed a motion behind closed doors telling the Judge not to consent to the demands for judicial supervision under the pretext that it was difficult to guarantee a hitch free clause for judicial supervision.
Attempts by Cameroon Concord to reach some lawyers of the Defense counsel on the way forward proved futile.
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Disturbing developments from the Kondengui Central Prison indicates that 71 Anglophones arrested during the upheavals in the North West and South West regions and detained in the penitentiary facility have unanimously begun an indefinite hunger strike. We learnt that the detainees have neither tasted food nor water for the past 48 hours.
The hunger strike we are told is provoked by the fact that since their arbitrary arrest, they are yet to be charged to court and their charges revealed. They have been in prison for over six months now under precarious conditions characterized by improper medical care, poor feeding and clothing. They said they would rather starve to death than remain in prison indefinitely without any cause. Most of the detainees lament that they are constantly harassed by their francophone inmates with the complicity of prison officials.
Attempts by prison administrators to make them retract their decision has proved futile. As the detainees have insisted their core demands for trial must be met or they would rather die seeking freedom.
The drastic move comes at a crucial phase in the trial of Barrister Felix Nkongho Agbor Balla, Dr Fontem Neba, Mancho Bibixy and 26 other Southern Cameroonians who are presently at the Yaounde Military Tribunal. We learnt they too have joint their comrades in arms.
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Reports reaching Cameroon Concord say at least two persons have died and two others have sustained injuries in a suicide attack in the Far North. The dead were the two attackers.
The tragedy occurred this Wednesday morning.
The attackers included a woman and a little girl of about eight who wore suicide belts.
Today's attack occurred in a locality called Galbi.
More details are yet to drop in.
Last week, another attack claimed 11 lives, including the two bombers, and left dozens more injured, still in the Far North.
Boko Haram, A vicious terrorist group operating in that part of the nation, is usually blamed for such attacks.
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