MAROUA, Cameroon — Baptist missions agency EBM International (EBMI) evacuated all its missionaries and volunteers from the Far North province of Cameroon following a series of bombings by Muslim extremist group Boko Haram.
“Since January 2013, Boko Haram has started to kidnap foreigners in order to release them for money,” said Christoph Haus, EBMI general secretary. “They have kidnapped almost 20 foreigners, some of them were missionaries. Over the past six weeks they have started a series of six suicide bombings that have left more than 50 dead and hundreds injured,” Haus said.
Magloire Kadjio, EBMI regional representative in Cameroon, said Boko Haram has changed its tactics. “(Boko Haram is) now using adolescents as kamikazes. They take time to brainwash them and to convince them that if they die as kamikazes, God will be very pleased with them; they will have special privileges in paradise; they will be together with their loved ones who are already dead.” (BWA)
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