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Around 100 bodies have been found near a town in Nigeria recently freed from Boko Haram Takfiri terrorists, says a Chadian army spokesman. Colonel Azem Bermandoa Agouna told AFP on Friday that soldiers discovered the bodies under a bridge on the edge of the town of Damasak, liberated by forces from Chad and Niger on March 9. Agouna, who said he himself visited the scene, stated that there were “about 100 bodies spread around under the bridge just outside the town", adding, "This is the work of Boko Haram."

The colonel said some of the victims had been beheaded and some others shot. "There are heads here and bodies there, the mass grave has become like a termite mound." Damasak fell to Boko Haram on November 24, when the terrorists killed around 50 people and forced another 3,000 to escape. The town was retaken one day after Chad and Niger launched "Operation Mai Dounama,” a vast air and ground offensive in an effort to destroy the Takfiri group’s bases near the two countries.

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21.Mar.2015

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A top UN official says the rise in militancy in northeastern Nigeria has caused a tremendous amount of suffering, misery and hardship in the region. UN Assistant Secretary General Robert Piper said the problems range from food shortages to family units torn apart by relentless attacks by the militants, namely the Boko Haram group. A recent survey of displaced children around Maiduguri, the capital of the northeastern Borno State, showed over 35 percent of the children were acutely malnourished, said the official, describing the figure as "very, very high."

The impact of Boko Haram fighting and violence has caused the humanitarian situation in the area to deteriorate rapidly, particularly over the past year. Reports say millions of farmers have practically lost access to their farms, causing a surging food crisis in the country. At the same time, the dire food situation has led to a huge rise in acute malnutrition, in some cases causing irreparable damage to children’s health and even death.

Boko Haram militants are the terrorist group in control of some parts of northeastern Nigeria. The Takfiri group has claimed responsibility for numerous deadly attacks and abductions (most notably of school girls) since the beginning of its criminal activities in 2009. The extremist group’s reign of terror has left over 13,000 people dead and at least 1.5 million displaced. The group has also declared allegiance to the ISIL Takfiri militants which is currently wreaking havoc in areas under terrorists control in Iraq and Syria.

Nigerian troops with the help of military forces from neighboring Chad, Cameroon and Niger, have started a joint operation targeting the militant group. They say they have made major progress against the terrorists in past weeks and have recaptured many towns held by the terrorists, bringing closer the end of the militants’ deadly campaign in the region.

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21.Mar.2015

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The Takfiri Boko Haram militants have attacked a town in Nigeria’s northeastern state of Borno near the border with Cameroon, killing nearly a dozen people. The killings took place after hundreds of Boko Haram terrorists stormed the town of Gamboru, located some 700 kilometers (434 miles) north of the capital, Abuja, following the withdrawal of about 2,500 Chadian troops from the Nigerian territory last week. “Boko Haram gunmen returned on motorcycles to Gamboru yesterday (Wednesday)... and shot dead eight people,” Mudi Dankaka, a local of the nearby Cameroonian town of Fotokol, said. He added that three more people were killed on Thursday. Another Fotokol resident, Umar Ari, said Nigerian forces have not been spotted in Gamboru, leaving the area exposed and with no security presence since the Chadian troops’ pullback. Boko Haram Takfiris had earlier massacred dozens of women in Bama – a city of about 200,000 people located just 75 kilometers (45 miles) northwest of Borno state’s capital, Maiduguri.

 

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20.Mar.2015

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Boko Haram militants in Nigeria have reportedly slaughtered dozens of women who had been forced to marry the Takfiri terrorists, before the start of a battle in the country’s northeast. The women were killed after the militants received word of an attack by Nigerian army forces on the town of Bama in the state of Borno, local sources said on Thursday. The APC and its Fulani candidate are maintaining a kind of deliberate silence on this very disturbing news.  According to reports, the militants fled to the nearby town of Gwoza after killing the women. Reports indicate that the women were killed about 10 days before Bama was liberated by army forces on March 16. They were massacred after militants received orders from a top Boko Haram commander. Witnesses who were taken under military protection say the militants executed their “wives” in order to prevent them from remarrying. The Takfiri militants forcibly married scores of women in Bama after taking over the town last September. Over the past months, they killed a large number of the town’s population, forcing hundreds of residents to escape.

The states of Borno, Adamawa, and Yobe have been the core of six years of Boko Haram violence, which has claimed over 13,000 lives and displaced a further 1.5 million people since 2009. Earlier this month, The Nigerian army said it had managed to retake full control of the Adamawa from Boko Haram Takfiri terrorists. Boko Haram recently declared allegiance to the ISIL Takfiri group which is perpetrating heinous crimes against humanity in areas under its control in Iraq, Syria, and Libya.

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20.Mar.2015

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Never, never and never again has President Biya ever had a difficult holiday abroad. His recent trip to Switzerland has been rocked by too many political scandals leaving some political commentators to opine that his days as Head of State are numbered. It all started with the scandal at the International Relations Institute of Cameroon, where he had to intervene to calm the anger of the public. It was followed immediately by the photomontage on the website of the Presidency of the Republic. The 82 year old instructed an investigation to uncover the perpetrators and felt he could rest peacefully at his five star Intercontinental Hotel in Geneva. Events instead took a dramatic turn when French daily Le Monde made public some nasty revelations about the health of the presidential couple. Intelligence sources say the elderly politician was stunned by Le Monde’s take on his person and family.

Interestingly, from a purely Beti-Ewondo entourage accompanying the president namely, Martin Belinga Eboutou, Minister and Director of the Civil Cabinet at the Presidency, Rear Admiral Joseph Fouda, Special Adviser to the President and Simon Peter Bikele, the head of presidential protocol, a conspiracy theory filtered with some people accusing officials in Yaoundé of deliberately releasing information. Deep inside the presidency, the health of the Chief Executive is never on the agenda for any discussion. The Cameroonian dictator is now very angry because he did not see his end coming and never had anticipated the disclosure of such sensitive information to a foreign media by his acolytes.  Le Monde thinks the Cameroonian media has failed the Cameroonian people and it is time for help to come from abroad.  After its report on President Biya’s health, Cameroon government officials contacted the publication the next day. They demanded initially that the paper should tear down the article. Yaoundé also did threaten legal action. But met with a stone wall!! Le Monde will publish on Saturday evening, a new version of the text that confirms the information on the health of President Biya and his wife Chantal.

The CPDM gang in the nation’s capital, Yaoundé, have been busy trading “outside plot” conspiracy theory yet things seem more complicated more than ever before. None of the Biya men and women have attempted a rejoinder or legal proceedings against the French based news magazine. This begs the question: Is Biya actually working with the wrong guys? Inside sources say Biya had actually planned to have a 10 days holiday and he and his delegation were supposed to have left the Intercontinental Hotel on March the 11, 2015. However, by some strange happenstance, their stay has been extended to March 20^th, 2015. So, here at last is Paul Biya being taunted by young Cameroonians in front of a hotel in Swiss! Some conclusions could be drawn from the happenings in Swiss and one of them is simply that, considering the fact that the Whiteman who invented the aeroplane has till date not been able to create a garage for its repairs up in the air, this is a truism that everything that goes up must come down.

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19.Mar.2015

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