About 80 children rescued from a Boko Haram camp in Cameroon cannot remember their own names or origins, according to an aid official who visited them.

The children - aged between 5 and 18 - did not speak English, French or any local languages, says Christopher Fomunyoh, a director for the US-based National Democratic Institute (NDI).

The children were found at a camp in northern Cameroon in November.

Nigeria-based Boko Haram militants have extended their campaign into Cameroon.

The militants are fighting to establish an Islamic caliphate in north-eastern Nigeria.

They control several towns and villages in the region and recently pledged allegiance to Islamic State (IS) militants, who have seized large areas of Syria and Iraq.

'Lost touch'
The children were rescued in Cameroon after security forces - acting on a tip-off - raided what was thought to have been a Koranic school.

Mr Fomunyoh told the BBC's Randy Joe Sa'ah in Yaounde that he had visited an orphanage that was helping rehabilitate the children.

He said the children had spent so long with their captors, being indoctrinated in jihadist ideology, that they had lost track of who they were.

"They've lost touch with their parents," he said. "They've lost touch with people in their villages, they're not able to articulate, to help trace their relationships, they can't even tell you what their names are."

Meanwhile, a suspected Boko Haram attack on Tuesday killed at least six people at a marketplace in the northern Nigerian town of Maiduguri.

The suicide bombing was reportedly carried out by a middle-aged woman.

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Boko Haram at a glance

Founded in 2002, initially focused on opposing Western-style education - Boko Haram means "Western education is forbidden" in the Hausa language

Launched military operations in 2009 to create Islamic state
Thousands killed, mostly in north-eastern Nigeria - has also attacked police and UN headquarters in capital, Abuja
Abducted hundreds, including at least 200 schoolgirls
Controls several north-eastern towns
Launched attacks on neighbouring states
Boko Haram pledge to IS raises stakes

Why is Boko Haram so strong?

Can regional force beat Islamists?

IS shaping Boko Haram media

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-31815810

Drug OD on daily basis while u are whipped to chant those muslim chants "lai-la-hi-lala-lai-la-hi-lala muhamadu buhari ra la suru lai" repeatedly every hour.

That's worse than hypnosis.

Bokoharam Bokoharam BOKOHARAM!!!
How many times did I call your name? So it has gotten to the level of hypnotizing children and adults? No wonder all those 72 virgin fuctards blow themselves up with too much temerity cause there brain has been packed full with ridiculous extremist ideology.
#Neveragain#!!!

Northerners! The level of illiteracy in the north even in the 21st century is still on the high side.

God bless the military... Ride on.

Jonasamboribo...Something he should have done for long...
Watta insensitivity

As if they knew their names before they were kidnapped.

Too low IQ. Have they spent up to a year ? Yet dey no even fit remember their names. Na wa ooo.

Please Let's b counting the Number of Rescued children so far, let it nt pass d Number of d chibok Girls APC alleged missing... Thanks

this is serious. If our chibok girls are found hope they won't be this bad.

[size=15pt]See what I was saying? A normal human being would not blow up his/her self. You gats be turned from human to pseudo-human[/size]

Chai!
Seems these children were drugged leading to memory loss .
Thank God they've been rescued.

Waoh

That's touching

Aw...feel like crying.

Buhari expanding his ministry since 2011


Buhari is a terrorist
Apc Is bokoharam
Gej till 2019

Hmmmm

Chai


God have mercy!

Boko

chai

CHM11:
Drug OD on daily basis while u are whipped to sing those muslim lai-la-hi-lala lai-la-hi-lala muhamadu ra la suru lai chants repeatedly.

That's worse than hypnosis.

U got me lmao! O ga badly

hmm

Odolondolo

So terrible