Dabanga (Cameroon) (AFP) - "Everyone out! Hold onto your belongings, we're going to conduct a search," yells a Cameroonian soldier as he inspects bus passengers already wearied by dusty hours on a bumpy northern road. "We're everywhere in the area," said the soldier in Dabanga, in Cameroon's far north, the border region where a French family was kidnapped last year by Islamic extremists of the deadly Boko Haram movement. The incursion of Boko Haram fighters into Cameroon, from their stronghold over the border in Nigeria, has led to regular vehicle searches and identity checks by the army. Boko Haram, whose name means "Western education is forbidden", has killed thousands of people since 2009 in its fight to establish an Islamic state in the north of Nigeria. Source: AFP
