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Boko Haram kidnaps wife of Cameroon vice PM

July 27, 2014

Three die as wife taken in attack on politician's home, while local religious leader captured in separate raid.   [caption id="attachment_10581" align="alignleft" width="300"]Cameroon has deployed more than 1,000 troops along its border to help combat Boko Haram [AFP] Cameroon has deployed more than 1,000 troops along its border to help combat Boko Haram [AFP][/caption]The wife of Cameroon's vice prime minister, Amadou Ali, has been kidnapped and at least three other people have been killed in an attack by Boko Haram fighters on Ali's home in the northern town of Kolofata, officials have said. A local religious leader and mayor, Seini Boukar Lamine, was also kidnapped in a separate attack on his home. "I can confirm that the home of Vice Prime Minister Amadou Ali in Kolofata came under a savage attack from Boko Haram militants," Cameroon's information minister Issa Tchiroma told Reuters news agency on Sunday. "They unfortunately took away his wife. They also attacked the lamido's (religious leader's) residence and he was also kidnapped," he said, adding that at least three people were killed in the attack. Boko Haram fighters clashed with the Cameroonian army in cross-border attacks twice since Friday, killing four soldiers. Cameroon has deployed more than 1,000 soldiers along its border to help combat the Nigerian armed group. 201473141613227734_20In May, Boko Haram kidnapped 10 Chinese workers from northern Cameroon. A massive assault last week by Boko Haram in which the group took control of northeast Nigerian town of Damboa displaced more than 15,000 people. Thousands of people have died since Boko Haram launched an uprising in 2009, and several hundred have been killed in the past two months as the group steps up its campaign against the government. The group gained international notoriety after kidnapping more than 270 schoolgirls in northern Nigeria in April, but has been active in the country for more than 12 years. *Source Al Jazeera]]>

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  1. Indeed, the Cameroon authorities must redefine and ensure a collegiate approach to the combat of these terrorists. Note must be taken of the fact that the name Boko Haram is a mask used by a certain segment of the people of that region as insinuated lately by the speaker of the National Assembly, Cavaye Yegue Jibril.
    Let Cameroonians of all works of life be involve in the struggle. This is no war for the military alone. It touches on the territorial integrity of Cameroon is is therefore no trifling matter.

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