Cameroon’s Far North – From an Emergency Approach to a Sustainable Development Plan

[Africa Research Institute] Cameroon has been officially at war against Boko Haram since 2014. Although the jihadist group has been considerably weakened since its apogee in 2014-15, it is not yet defeated – as the mid-2017 increase in suicide attacks demonstrated. In the Far North region, approximately 2,000 civilians and soldiers have been killed, and more than a thousand abducted. The army has killed an estimated 1,500-2,100 Boko Haram fighters and arrested nearly a thousand suspected members.