"I was in my sector when I heard a large explosion in another part of the town," the self-defence source said. Attacks attributed to Boko Haram fighters have flared in northern Cameroon in recent weeks after months of relative calm, often targeting self-defence groups set up to respond to the jihadist threat. On August 5, a similar attack in the village of Ouro-Kessoum, also near the Nigerian border, killed eight people, following a double suicide attack nearby in July that killed 15. Boko Haram's bloody eight-year armed insurgency, initially focussed on northeast Nigeria, has killed at least 20,000 people and displaced more than 2.6 million. Since the beginning of the year, 83 children have been used to carry out bomb attacks in northeast Nigeria, Unicef said, four times as many attacks as in all of 2016.

Source: The Nation Bangkok August 23, 2017 11:48 UTC