Boko Haram kidnapped wife of Deputy Prime Minister of Cameroon

The terrorist group Boko Haram yesterday carried out an attack on the residence of the Deputy Prime Minister of Cameroon, Amadou Ali, in the city of Kolofata (north, near the border with Nigeria), and kidnapped his wife, according to sources Cameroonian Government. The incident occurred in the early hours of yesterday when about 200 members of the terrorist group attacked the house of Ali, whose family had gathered to celebrate the end of Ramadan and that he fled escorted by his bodyguards. Moreover, terrorists also kidnapped a local religious leader. In both attacks have killed at least three people.

In recent days have stepped up attacks on Nigerian terror group Boko Haram in Cameroon, especially after the country judged 14 people suspected of belonging to the radical sect condemned and sentenced to between 10 and 20 years. Therefore, Cameroon has deployed about 2,000 troops on the border, part of which also includes Chad, Niger and Nigeria itself to try to contain the attacks of multinational contingent group.

Boko Haram, name in Hausa language means ” Western education is sinful “, is in open war with the Nigerian government since 2009, when its leader, Abubakar Shekau, decided to launch a broad offensive attacks to avenge the death of former chief organization, Mohamed Yussuf. Since then thousands of people have died in a spiral of violence that seems to have no end, both at the hands of Boko Haram as a result of the brutal crackdown launched by the Nigerian Army. Only in the first half of 2014 is estimated to Boko Haram has killed more than 2,000 people, according to the international organization Human Rights Watch. In the past five years, the Nigerian government estimates the death toll at the hands of the radical sect was 12,000.

This terrorist group was responsible, last April, the kidnapping of over 200 female students in the Nigerian town of Chibok, an act that put the focus of world attention on this conflict for a few days and has not yet been solved. While some young people have managed to escape, the vast majority remain in the hands of their captors, that soon even this figure increased by new abductions of young, which threaten to sell as slaves or forcibly married.

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