{"id":34851,"date":"2020-01-29T07:40:59","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T07:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/?p=34851"},"modified":"2020-01-29T07:40:59","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T07:40:59","slug":"boko-haram-a-hydra-with-many-heads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2020\/01\/29\/boko-haram-a-hydra-with-many-heads\/","title":{"rendered":"BOKO HARAM: A Hydra with many heads"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An upsurge of Boko Haram attacks in Cameroon since the start of 2020 has caused terror among local inhabitants \u2013 according to a Bishop in the country. Bishop Bruno Ateba of Maroua-Mokolo, northern Cameroon, told Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) that 13 attacks over the last fortnight were the work of the extremist group.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bishop Ateba said: \u201cNot a day passes without attacks on the villages on Cameroon\u2019s frontier with Nigeria.\u201d He added: \u201cBoko Haram is like the beast of the Apocalypse, or a many-headed Hydra \u2013 whenever you cut off one of its heads, it seems simply to grow another&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cJust at the moment when people thought that the beast of Boko Haram had been completely decapitated, the horror has resurfaced in northern Cameroon. \u201cWithin my own diocese there have been 13 attacks in the last weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nigeria\u2019s President Muhammadu Buhari has claimed that, since he took office in 2015, Boko Haram\u2019s terror activities have been \u201ccurbed\u201d but the Islamist militants continue to carry out atrocities in rural districts as well as in neighbouring Cameroon and Chad.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A number of attacks on Christians took place over the Christmas period \u2013 including the Christmas-Day murder of 11 Nigerians by the Boko Haram faction Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP). The Islamist militia is also suspected of torching a church in Cameroon on the feast of the Epiphany.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bishop Ateba said: \u201cWe are still investigating who was behind the incident, but everything points to the fact that it was a terrorist attack.\u201d Bishop Barth\u00e9lemy Yaouda Hourgo of Yaouga, Cameroon, also spoke to ACN about the attacks in the country&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said: \u201cMy birthplace, the village of Blablim, no longer exists. \u201cThe terrorists have murdered a young man of my family and totally devastated the entire village, including the house I was born in. Everybody, with the exception of the sick and elderly, was forced to flee to Mora, 10 miles away. It will be impossible now to gather in the cotton harvest. Right now the weather is very cold in this area. 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