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2019-04-10 Africa Subsaharan
2,000 flee Nigeria village ahead of army offensive against Boko Haram
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Some 2,000 people have been forced to flee to the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri ahead of a major offensive against Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
, emergency services and residents told AFP on Tuesday.

Nigerian troops herded residents of Jakana village into trucks and ferried them 40 kilometers to a displacement camp in the Borno State capital, said a National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) front man.

Evacuated residents were taken to "Bakassi IDP (internally displaced persons) Camp by the military for their safety as a result of ongoing operations to flush out hard boyz in the area," said Abdulkadir Ibrahim.

Camp officials were "mobilizing resources" to care for their basic needs, he added.

The residents of Jakana said they were given no notice.

Modu Kaka said: "The soldiers came this morning and told us to assemble and began herding us into trucks.

"We left all our possessions in Jakana and we are now dependent on food aid."

Bakassi is one of several camps in the city housing thousands of displaced people, who live in squalid shelters and rely on food handouts from aid agencies.

An unnamed military official in the city said the evacuation was in preparation for a "big operation" against the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
West Africa Province (ISWAP), the ISIS-linked faction of Boko Haram.

Jakana lies on a known crossing route for ISWAP fighters moving between their camps in the Benisheikh forest area of Borno and their hideouts in the Buni Yadi area of neighboring Yobe state.

Posted by Fred 2019-04-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ]  Top
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