Risk of new attacks in Far North Region

After the support of local population who foiled two attempted attacks on Monday morning in Kolofata, where nine people were killed Friday, Cameroonian security services have evoked the risk of further suicide bombings in the Far North after information reports of alleged infiltration of suicide bombers to Afadé, in the same region.

Monday is market day in Afadé, a town in the Far North near to the Nigerian border. Aware of the infiltration of “six girls kamikaze” suspected members of Boko Haram, the security services decided to ban market on December 14.

Because of this threat, the forces of defense and Cameroonian security have announced the strengthening of territorial surveillance measures in border areas, urban areas and communication routes.

According to Xinhua, “mines and suicide bombers are currently the main threats” in the region after the military weakening of the Nigerian terrorist group.

Monday, December 14 at around 4:30 (3:30 GMT), two attacks were foiled in Kolofata after “two girls suicide bombers were put out of harm’s way. The first arrow hit by the Vigilance Committee [group Community self-defense], triggered it to discharge with no casualties, apart from the bomber, “says a security official contacted by Xinhua.

The second suicide bomber, in turn, was shot by a soldier of the army, alerted by the population. “The said suicide bombers would likely be among those fleeing in the attacks of 11 December, is currently on the run,” said this source.

On Friday, December 11, it should be recalled that a young man of fifteen years blew himself up in the same locality, causing nine people including himself and some twenty-two wounded, according to official figures.

Since July, suicide attacks are increasing in the Far North, in Kolofata appears as one of the prime targets. In September, two young boys attacked, causing ten deaths and fourteen wounded.

After a three-day visit to the region on Sunday, Cameroonian General Valere Nka, commander of the Multinational Joint Commission force of the Lake Chad Basin (FMM / LCBC), welcomed the progress made in peacemaking areas under the jihadist threat.