Boko Haram Leader Threatens Cameroon In New YouTube video

Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau has threatened Cameroon in a video message on YouTube, warning that the same fate would befall the country as neighbouring Nigeria. The video, which was posted on Jan. 5, is directly addressed to Cameroon's President Paul Biya after repeated fighting between militants and troops in the country's far north. “Oh Paul Biya, if you don't stop this, your evil plot, you will taste what has befallen Nigeria..Your troops cannot do anything to us," Shekau said in Arabic.

It is first time Shekau has directly addressed Cameroon and is also the first admission that Boko Haram has been actively operating in the country. Cameroon's far north has come increasingly into the group's firing line and on December 28, Yaounde deployed fighter jets against Boko Haram for the first time.

Biya personally ordered the air strike after the insurgents crossed the border and seized a military camp, the government said on December 29. The aerial bombardment, hailed as a new phase in the counter-insurgency, forced the Islamists to flee, it added.

Source: AFP Africa