Friday, February fourteenth, the UN says at least 22 people have been killed in a village in the Northwest region of Cameroon. Over half of those killed were children. No one has claimed responsibility for Friday’s incident but the opposition parties blame the killing on the government.
Suicide bomber claims to be missing Chibok school girl
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Authorities in Cameroon and Nigeria
are investigating a claim from a would-be suicide bomber that she was one of a
group of schoolgirls abducted in 2014.
The Nigerian government is sending
parents to Cameroon to attempt to identify the girl.
She told investigators in Cameroon
she was one of 270 kidnapped in Chibok by jihadist group Boko Haram.
The abductions sparked international
outrage and the #bringbackourgirls social media campaign.
While about 50 of the girls managed
to escape, 219 of these girls remain missing. They were taken by the militants
from the Chibok community in northeastern Nigeria.
It was reported that one of the
girls arrested in northern Cameroon on Friday carrying explosives claimed to be
one of the missing Chibok girls.
The girls were arrested after being
stopped by local self-defence forces in Limani near the border with Nigeria,
the target of frequent suicide bombings in recent months.
"We hope that the Chibok
parents will be able to identify the girl and determine whether she is indeed
one of their missing students," Garba Shehu, a spokesman for Nigerian
President Muhammadu Buhari said.
Mr Shehu said the government was
keen to ascertain the girl's identity so she could be brought back to Nigeria
and possibly assist the government in investigating the abductions.
He said the two parents from Chibok
selected to embark on the trip to Cameroon are Yakubu Nkeki, chairman of the
Chibok Abducted Girls Movement, and Yana Galang, the women's leader in the
group, whose 16-year-old daughter Rifkatu is among the missing.
Former Nigerian President Goodluck
Jonathan was criticised for his slow reaction to the Chibok abductions. Mr
Buhari, his successor, ordered a new investigation into the kidnappings in
January.
Although Boko Haram has been driven
out from most of the areas it controlled in north-eastern Nigeria, it has
continued to carry out suicide bombings and raids into neighbouring Cameroon,
Chad and Niger.
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