Suspected jihadists have killed six Nigerian fishermen in Cameroon’s Far North region, close to the Lake Chad hideouts of insurgents, a local official and a police officer told AFP on Thursday. “Three armed men from Boko Haram arrived on a motorbike and attacked the fishermen,” overnight Wednesday, said an adminstration official in the Logone and Chari department, asking not to be named. The Cameroonian authorities call both groups “Boko Haram”. A multinational force with troops from all four countries last week said it had killed over 800 jihadists in about two months in the volatile Lake Chad region. The vast, swampy Lake Chad basin stretches across the borders of Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon and Chad, and the jihadists have established bases in its many small islands.

Source: The North Africa Journal June 17, 2022 01:52 UTC