“If [ISWAP militants] can carry out an attack in Cameroon and retreat into Nigeria, it means [Lake Chad Basin] countries do not have the capacity to protect the porous borders and extensive boundaries.”
Yes. And who is financing these jihad groups that are more powerful than several national militaries?
“Cameroon Reels From Fresh Islamist Attacks That Killed 13 Soldiers,” by Nalova Akua, Epoch Times, July 30, 2021:
The news came hard for the Aoudou Man family, always fearful of news about Islamist terrorist attacks in northern Cameroon. That’s because two sons from the family have been serving in the Cameroonian army, fighting militants of the Nigerian-based Islamist terror group, Boko Haram.
Their fear was realized on July 24 with news that their son was a casualty of the first of two attacks by ISIS-related terrorists in the Fourth Joint Military Region in the Far North Region of the country, killing 13 soldiers and a civilian. Authorities use the catchall term “Boko Haram,” for the attackers, although they may have been elements of the newly refortified insurgency known as the Islamic State of West Africa (ISWAP).
Zanguim Jean De Dieu Man, 25, was among eight soldiers who died following the first attack, at 4:00 a.m., July 24, at a military outpost in the Logone-and-Chari Division of Cameroon’s Far North Region that shares a porous border with northeastern Nigeria –Boko Haram’s base….
The second attack struck the army barely 48 hours later—on Monday evening, July 26—at the base of the Multinational Joint Task Force (MJTF) near the same area, and left five soldiers and a civilian dead. Sixteen soldiers were wounded in the two incidents.
‘New Boko Haram’
“We are facing a new Boko Haram,” Cameroon’s Minister of Defense, Joseph Beti Assomo, told the press shortly before an in-camera security meeting which he convened in the region Thursday….Cameroon recorded the highest number of Boko Haram attacks against civilians in 2020—totaling 234—slightly higher than Nigeria (100), Niger (92), and Chad (12) combined, according to the Africa Center for Strategic Studies, a U.S. think tank….
“It is hard to say with certainty the origin of the attacks,” Suh I Fru Nobert, lecturer and researcher in the Department of Political Science and Comparative Politics in Cameroon’s University of Buea, told The Epoch Times in a text.
“That’s probably why the government of Cameroon points fingers at Boko Haram. What is certain is that the attacks are terrorist attacks and the mode of operation is common among terrorist groups,” he said….
Experts believe the latest attacks in northern Cameroon expose grisly cracks in the Multinational Joint Task Force—a force set up in 2015 to support regional cooperation among Lake Chad Basin countries to fight Boko Haram.
“The attacks demonstrate that the MNJTF is not effective,” David Otto, Defence consultant to the Nigerian government, told The Epoch Times in a text.
“If [ISWAP militants] can carry out an attack in Cameroon and retreat into Nigeria, it means [Lake Chad Basin] countries do not have the capacity to protect the porous borders and extensive boundaries,” he said….
Until recently, there were no significant attacks from Islamist militants in northern Cameroon—thereby creating the illusion that the group had been defeated, said Suh….
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Cameroon: Muslims murder 13 soldiers and a civilian in jihad attack on military outpost
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And these were mostly soldiers–civilians have even less of a chance against these Jihadists.