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Cameroon

Boko Haram's acts are 'just inhuman'

Nigeria-based Boko Haram jihadists are behind horrendous violence in neighboring Cameroon, where they have kidnapped more than 1,000 children and used some youngsters as human shields, a top United Nations official has said. "The system they use is just inhuman," Najat Rochdi, UN humanitarian coordinator for Cameroon, told reporters in Geneva this week.