The Islamist army with the Boko Haram moniker is at it again. According to Issa Tchiroma Bakary, Cameroon’s information minister, Mabass village in far northern Cameroon was attacked early yesterday (18 January 2015).

Boko Haram killed at least three people and kidnapped four dozen hostages.

In a separate attack in Nigeria also reported by the Associated Press, a suicide bomber killed four people and injured 35 others in the northeast town of Potiskum.

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