Boko Haram used Cameroon's impoverished Far North to stockpile
supplies and recruits until the government cracked down last year.
A wall painted by Boko Haram is pictured in Damasak, Nigeria March 24, 2015. REUTERS/Joe Penney
A suicide attack by suspected members of Nigerian Islamist militants group Boko Haram killed at least 10 people over the border in the Far North region of Cameroon on Saturday, security sources said.
Boko
Haram has mounted numerous attacks in Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria
this year and is turning the border region near Lake Chad into a war
zone, the United Nations refugee agency said last month.
"The
initial figures speak of 10 dead including the suicide bombers and
around a dozen wounded," said a senior Cameroonian army commander of the
attack on the village of Nigue, a suburb of Fotokol town.
Boko
Haram has waged a six-year campaign for an Islamist state in
northeastern Nigeria. Neighbouring countries joined an offensive against
the group this year and the conflict spilled across their borders,
displacing tens of thousands of people.
Boko Haram
used Cameroon's impoverished Far North to stockpile supplies and
recruits until the government cracked down last year.
Cameroon
is also in an 8,700-strong regional force led by Nigeria against the
militants, expected to be operational by the end of the year. The United
States is sending military supplies and troops to the central African
country to aid the fight.
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