US Military To Conduct Missions Against Boko Haram Inside Nigeria

The BBC states that at least 32 people died in the combined attacks.

The first suicide bomber allegedly activated his charge when he entered the Maiduguri mosque on Thursday evening, according to sources at the scene.

While it wasn’t immediately known whether Boko Haram is to blame for the five suicide bombings, such attacks would be consistent with its grisly past – one that shows little apparent distinction between killing innocent civilians or uniformed officers and troops.

BBC News reported on the same day that Cameroon has been targeted by the Boko Haram.

“A little while later when people rushed in to try to help, the second bomber detonated his own bomb, killing numerous rescuers”, Maina said.

The bomb went off when worshippers were observing their Magrib prayers.

Local police have confirmed the attacks, saying mainly worshippers were confirmed killed after two suicide bombers hit the mosque in Molai, an area located on the outskirts of Maiduguri, detonating their improvised explosive devices in and outside the mosque respectively, causing the building to collapse.

President Muhammadu Buhari has reiterated his commitment to ending insurgency in Nigeria, saying it is “a task that must be done”.

Soldiers said they lacked the ammunition and other supplies to confront Boko Haram.

But with Maiduguri having been attacked four times this month alone, fresh questions will be asked about security in the city, where Boko Haram, which is allied to the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq, was founded in 2002.

U.S. President Barack Obama announced Wednesday the deployment of approximately 300 troops to Cameroon to aid in intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance in the West African country.

The dual suicide attack came a day after triple explosions in Chad left 41 dead.

Boko Haram’s “ability to attack, seize, ravage and hold any Nigerian territory will have been completely obliterated” by December, he said. Using drones to gather intelligence, they will help their counterparts in Cameroon monitor the growing threat from the Islamic terrorist group as it expands its bloody reign out of its stronghold in Nigeria, which the US would not aid because of the Nigerian government’s abysmal record of human rights violations and corruption.