150 Boko Haram fighters in Cameroon’s Far North region have downed their weapons and defected to the authorities as reported by the country’s National Committee on Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration (NCDDR).
The defectors will undergo several months of deradicalization and reeducation at the center. Additionally, the ex-fighters will benefit from professional training in agriculture, livestock, business, and handicraft during their stay in the center.
Cameroon is facing serious security challenges in the two Anglophone regions of Northwest and Southwest where separatists want to create an independent nation and in the Far North, where terror group Boko Haram is intensifying attacks on civilians and government forces.
