September brought the news that Northern Cameroon is more than ever in the sights of Boko Haram, as details of atrocities committed by the radical Islamic sect from neighbouring Nigeria continue to emerge.
The militant sect, which now controls several major Nigerian towns, has set up a caliphate with a strict implementation of shari’a law.
A lawmaker told the BBC that the dead bodies of civilians remained littered on the streets of Bama, a key town of Nigeria’s north-eastern Borno state – seized by Boko Haram. Christians in the occupied areas are being persecuted, it is reported. Christian men have been caught and beheaded while women have been forced to convert and to get married to militants.
