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Terrorist group(s) Cameroon, in 8 editions.
The entry for Cameroon published Terrorist group(s) in 8 editions of 36, from 2018 to 2025. The text changed in 4 editions. Each is shown as published. Terrorist group(s) in every entry.
- editions changed the text
- 4
- the first edition with it
- 2018
- the latest edition with it
- 2025
Published as “Terrorist groups - foreign based” (2018 to 2019) and “Terrorist group(s)” (2020 to 2025).
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2025 edition
Same as 2024Published as “Terrorist groups - foreign based”
- Boko Haram:
- aim(s): establish an Islamic caliphate across Africa
- area(s) of operation:
- conducts lethal bombing attacks and assaults,
- displacing thousands of people,
- especially in the Far North Region
note: violently opposes any political or social activity associated with Western society, including voting, attending secular schools, and wearing Western dress (April 2018)
- Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS)-West Africa: aim(s): implement ISIS's strict interpretation of Sharia;
- replace the Nigerian Government with an Islamic state
- area(s) of operation:
- based primarily in Northeast Nigeria along the border with Niger, with its largest presence in northeast Nigeria and the Lake Chad region;
- targets primarily regional military installations (April 2018)
Boko Haram: aim(s): establish an Islamic caliphate across Africa
area(s) of operation: conducts lethal bombing attacks and assaults, displacing thousands of people, especially in the Far North Region
note: violently opposes any political or social activity associated with Western society, including voting, attending secular schools, and wearing Western dress (April 2018)
Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS)-West Africa: aim(s): implement ISIS's strict interpretation of Sharia; replace the Nigerian Government with an Islamic state
area(s) of operation: based primarily in Northeast Nigeria along the border with Niger, with its largest presence in northeast Nigeria and the Lake Chad region; targets primarily regional military installations (April 2018)
Published as “Terrorist groups - foreign based”
- Boko Haram:
- aim(s): establish an Islamic caliphate across Africa
- area(s) of operation:
- conducts attacks, suicide bombings, targeted killings, kidnappings, and raids for supplies, especially in the Far North Region along Cameroon's border with Nigeria;
- perpetrates multiple and indiscriminate killings against civilians – Muslim and Christian alike – but also against government officials and security forces
note: violently opposes any political or social activity associated with Western society, including voting, attending secular schools, and wearing Western dress (2019)
- Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS)-West Africa: aim(s): implement ISIS's strict interpretation of Sharia;
- replace the Nigerian Government with an Islamic state
- area(s) of operation:
- based primarily in Northeast Nigeria along the border with Niger, with its largest presence in northeast Nigeria and the Lake Chad region;
- targets primarily regional military installations (2019)
Boko Haram: aim(s): establish an Islamic caliphate across Africa
area(s) of operation: conducts lethal bombing attacks attacks, suicide bombings, targeted killings, kidnappings, and assaults, displacing thousands of people, raids for supplies, especially in the Far North Region along Cameroon's border with Nigeria; perpetrates multiple and indiscriminate killings against civilians – Muslim and Christian alike – but also against government officials and security forces
note: violently opposes any political or social activity associated with Western society, including voting, attending secular schools, and wearing Western dress (April 2018) (2019)
Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS)-West Africa: aim(s): implement ISIS's strict interpretation of Sharia; replace the Nigerian Government with an Islamic state
area(s) of operation: based primarily in Northeast Nigeria along the border with Niger, with its largest presence in northeast Nigeria and the Lake Chad region; targets primarily regional military installations (April 2018) (2019)
- Boko Haram; Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham – West Africa (2020)
note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T
Rewritten: too little of the 2019 text remains to mark the changes.
Boko Haram; Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham – West Africa (2020)
note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T
The same text in 3 editions, 2021 to 2023.
Boko Haram; Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham – West Africa
note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T
Boko Haram; Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham – West Africa (2020)
note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T
The same text in 2024 and 2025.
Boko Haram; Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham – West Africa
note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in the Terrorism reference guide
Boko Haram; Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham – West Africa
note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T the Terrorism reference guide
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Central Intelligence Agency. “Cameroon: Terrorist group(s).” The World Factbook, 2018–2025 editions. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/cameroon/terrorist-group-s.