Boko Haram: The Forgotten War
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A Boko Haram flag (Illustrative image).
© AFP/STEPHANE YAS
By: Alain Foka Follow
1 min
Execution of thousands of civilians, kidnappings, sexual slavery, beheading of soldiers, suicide attacks... Since 2009, the war caused by the terrorist group Boko Haram in the countries of the Lake Chad basin has not ended.
And yet, despite the deaths, the continued violence and the million and a half refugees and displaced people, we hardly talk about it anymore.
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After global outrage sparked by the abduction on April 14, 2014 of 276 mostly Christian high school girls in the town of Chibok in Nigeria, the veil has almost entirely fallen on the fighting.
Where is the war against Boko Haram?
What explains the deafening silence around this conflict?
With our guests:
- Pr Issa Saibou
, analyst in cross-border security, dean of the Faculty of Arts, Letters and Human Sciences of the University of Maroua
- Colonel Mounchingam Martin Luther
, Chief of Staff of Sector N°1 of the Multi-National Mixed Force
- Marthe Wandou
, coordinator of the NGO Aldepa, Alternative Nobel Prize 2021
- Dr. Jean-Luc Stalon
, UNDP Resident Representative in Cameroon.
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