Kouyape attack

On August 1, 2020, Boko Haram militants attacked an IDP camp in Nguetchewe, also in Cameroon's Far North Region. The attack killed nineteen people, mostly refugees, and many residents of the camp fled Nguetchewe following the attack due to fears about their safety. Some of the refugees made their way to the refugee camps in Kouyape, neat the town of Goldavi in Far North.^[1]

Around 1,200 people were present in the village of Kouyape and the surrounding camps at the time of the attack.^[2] At 1:00 AM on September 1, around 100 Boko Haram fighters launched an incursion into the village.^[2] A vigilante present in Kouyape alerted the Cameroonian Rapid Intervention Brigade (BIR) of the attack, and BIR soldiers counter-attacked quickly.^[2] As Boko Haram withdrew from the village, a suicide bomber exploded and killed four people on the scene, excluding the bomber. Seven others were injured in the attack as well.^[3]

Two Boko Haram fighters were killed during the attack, including the suicide bomber and a fighter killed by BIR.^[2] The death toll later rose to seven killed, and fourteen others injured.^[1][4]