Boko Haram kidnaps 80 in Cameroon

Reuters:

Suspected Boko Haram Islamist fighters from Nigeria kidnapped around 80 people, many of them children, and killed three others on Sunday in a cross-border attack on villages in northern Cameroon, army and government officials said.

The group, which has killed thousands and kidnapped hundreds in its bid to carve out an Islamic state in northern Nigeria, has also targeted Cameroon and Niger over the past year as it seeks to expand its zone of operations.

Sunday's kidnappings, among the largest abductions on Cameroonian soil, came as neighbouring Chad deployed troops to support Cameroon's forces in the area.

"According to our initial information, around 30 adults, most of them herders, and 50 young girls and boys aged between 10 and 15 years were abducted," a senior army officer deployed to northern Cameroon told Reuters.

He said the early-morning attack had targeted the village of Mabass and other villages along the porous border. Soldiers intervened and exchanged fire with the raiders for around two hours, he added.
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It is going to take more than a hashtag campaign to stop these illiterate religious bigots.  Cameroon and Chad are at least putting up some resistance unlike Nigeria which appears to have abandoned the region after its troops were accused of atrocities.  There appears to be very little training in counterinsurgency warfare in the region which has left many villagers vulnerable to the Boko Haram's reign of terror and enforced ignorance.