BOKO HARAM AND NATIVE AUTHORITY IN THE FAR NORTH REGION OF CAMEROON: THE IMPACT OF SHARIA LAW-TERORIST OVER THE NIGERIA STATES AND THE RECONVERSION OF ELITES FROM 1982 IN CAMEROON
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Boko Haram, Native Authoriry, Farnorth Region Cameroon, ElitesAbstract
The Islamic State's West Africa Province formerly known a Group of the People of Sunnah for Preaching and Jihad and commonly known as Boko Haram is a jihadist terrorist organization based in north-eastern Nigeria, also active in Chad, Niger and northern Cameroon has seen the further decline of Boko Haram and the loss of much of the territory it once reportedly controlled. This movement is funded by Mohammed Yusuf in 2002, Boko Haram is an insurgent and terrorist movement of salafist jihadist ideology, originating in north-eastern Nigeria. This sect, whose name means "Western education is a sin," is responsible for several series of suicide bombings, kidnappings, and raids in Nigeria, Cameroon, and Chad. Since it rages in Cameroon (2014), we note that is mainly in the north, precisely in the extreme north, that the terrorists have set their sights in locality of Guru 7 June 2014, Bargaram 24-25 July 2014, Amchidé and Limani on October 15 and 16, 2014, Amchidé on December 17, 2014, Achigachie on December 29, 2014, and Kolofata on January 12, 2015. More recently: Gakara (August 24, 2017), Mogozo (October 2, 2017), Mohala (November 5, 2017), Malfaré (November 6-7, 2017), leaving in its path victims, dead and houses burned. It should be noted that since 2014, more than 2000 civilians and soldiers have been killed by this sect, which, despite the efforts of the government, seems to blend in the mass. This situation makes Cameroon a crime center affected by insecurity in Central Africa and Nigeria. Boko Haram was founded upon the principles of the Salafism advocating Sharia law. It developed into a Jihadist group in 2009. The movement is diffuse, and fighters associated with it follow the Salafi doctrine. Their beliefs tend to be centered on strict adherence to Wahhibism, which is an extremely strict form of Sunni Islam that sees many other forms of Islam as idolatrous. The group has denounced the members of the Sufi and the Shiite sects as infidel.
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