Even as leaders of African nations meet in Paris to discuss the growing threat of Islamist terrorist organisation Boko Haram, the group has conducted a raid across the border in neighbouring Cameroon, according to Reuters and Chinese news agencies. Boko Haram militants are said to have attacked a Chinese-owned plant near the town of Waza, northern Cameroon, not far from the vast Sambisa forest where it is thought the group are still hiding many of the schoolgirls abducted in Nigeria last month. A local police chief, speaking anonymously, said "Boko Haram Islamists attacked a camp (of road workers). Although most attacks by Boko Haram have occurred in Nigeria, where thousands have died in the insurgency, the group has also conducted operations in Cameroon.
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