OSINT SUMMARY
On Sunday 21st August 2016, four people were killed and two others critically injured after a suspected Boko Haram terrorist detonated his explosives vest out a busy market in the town of Mora in northern Cameroon.
According to report by Communication Minister Issa Tchiroma Bakary, those who died including the terrorist bomber were all traveling in a motorbike taxi headed to the market.
Referring to the local security authorities, Bakary noted that death toll would have been worse but luckily, the suicide bomber did not make it inside the market.
The Sunday suicide attack follows an abduction of three men at Doumpla by Boko Haram operatives approximately 2 kilometers from the border with Chad.
According to Major Godfroy Yende Sake, commander of an infantry battalion stationed at the town of Touboro, the heavily armed militants linked to Boko Haram kidnapped the chief of a local zoo and two of his neighbors.
Following the reports of increased kidnaps in Cameroon’s far north, U.S. through the Depart of State has advised its citizens from non-essential travelling to the region.
In 2013, at least 37 foreigners were kidnapped in northern Cameroon according to a report released on website of the U.S. embassy in Yaounde, Cameroon.
Cameroon alongside Nigeria, Chad, Niger and Benin have formed a Multinational Joint Task Force to battle the Middle East affiliated Boko Haram.
