Governors from Cameroon and Nigeria has announced it plans to re-open markets and rebuild schools along their shared border after declaring the area free of Boko Haram militants.
According to the statement, in June 2022 the Multinational Joint Task Force of the Lake Chad Basin Commission said its troops from Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon and Chad killed more than 800 jihadists after two months of fighting on the Cameroon-Nigeria border.
Cameroon and Nigeria say there is an increase in the number of Boko Haram militants surrendering at disarmament centres since May 2021 when Abubakar Shekau, leader of the Islamist group, was declared killed.
Recall also, the UN had said that more than 37,000 people have been killed and about 2.8 million people displaced by the Boko Haram uprising that began in 2009.
