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THE JAMESTOWN FOUNDATION JULY 28, 2017 VOLUME XV, ISSUE 15 p.1 p.3 p.5 p.8 Alexander Sehmer Nat Guillou Sudha Ramachandran Michael Horton BRIEFS The Future of Sunni Sanctioning Syed Reclaiming Lost Ground Jihadist Violence in Salahuddin: Too Little, in Somalia: The Endur- Iran Too Late ing Threat of al- Shabaab CAMEROON: BOKO HARAM STEPPING UP ATTACKS groups Cameroon encourages as a form of local police. Alexander Sehmer Across the border, Nigeria has seen a similar increase in attacks after a period of relative quiet. A Boko Haram Two suicide bombers killed at least 14 people and suicide attack killed at least 12 people and wounded wounded another 30 in northeast Cameroon on July 12 another 18 on the outskirts of Maiduguri, the Borno in an attack on a bustling market town near the Nigerian state capital (Daily Post, July 17). The attack, reportedly border (Cameroon-Info, July 14). The attack in Waza, carried out by two female suicide bombers, follows a attributed to Boko Haram, is the latest in what appears wave of similar suicide attacks carried out in the same to be a resurgence of Boko Haram attacks in Ca- area (Sahara Reporters, June 19). The Nigerian army is meroon’s Far North region and elsewhere (Kmer SAGA, now under orders to capture Boko Haram leader July 13). Abubakar Shekau “dead or alive” within the next 40 days (Premium Times, July 22). After a dip in Boko Haram violence in the region, mili- tants appear to be stepping up operations. Just a few In Cameroon, the military is conducting a similarly tough days ahead of the Waza attack, members of Cameroon’s campaign, one that has received criticism in a recent Rapid Intervention Brigade (BIR) intercepted a group of report by Amnesty International, which accused Ca- suspected Boko Haram fighters — made up of four men meroon of torturing citizens suspected of supporting and eight women — near Amichde, also near the Niger- Boko Haram (al-Jazeera, July 20) ian border (Kmer SAGA, July 11).
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