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Cameroon President Assists Militia After Boko Haram Raids

Moki Edwin Kindzeka

   KOUSSERI, CAMEROON - Authorities in Cameroon are giving huge
   consignments of food, money and equipment to militias fighting Boko
   Haram on the country's northern border with Nigeria. The militias are
   defending areas from which the military has withdrawn.

   Twenty-year old cattle rancher Hussein Abu still suffers from pain in
   his abdomen and forehead from when he fell into a river while hiding
   from attacking Boko Haram fighters on August 3.

   Abu says he and his father were part of the militia on duty in Kousseri
   that day. He says his father was killed in the attack alongside four
   other vigilante group members.

   Abu says if his father were alive, he should have been able to ensure
   his young ones would have education, food and clothing, and he should
   have had a means to take care of his failing health and that of his
   mother. He says he wants the state to help them.

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