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France has donated 15 vehicles, weapons and equipment to CameroonХs Special Forces as part of assistance to combat Boko Haram militants.

The militants С who have stolen cattle, raided markets and uprooted farmers С have created a malnutrition crisis in Nigeria that could spill across borders.

Poverty, conflict and climate change will leave 15 million people across Africa's Sahel belt in need of life-saving aid next year, the United Nations said as it launched a record $2.7 billion humanitarian appeal for the region in 2017.

Suspected Boko Haram militants launched three attacks in northern Cameroon within 24 hours, including a thwarted suicide strike on a camp for people who have been displaced by the conflict, security sources said on Tuesday. The Islamist militant group is based in northeastern Nigeria but regularly carries out raids in neighbouring Cameroon, Chad and Niger, prompting the four countries plus Benin to create a 10,000-strong joint task force.

Up to a million people around West Africa's Lake Chad are cut off from humanitarian aid by Boko Haram despite a regional military offensive against the Islamist militants, a United Nations official said on Tuesday.

CameroonХs military campaign against the Boko Haram insurgency started late but has met with partial success. To consolidate gains and bring lasting peace to the Far North, the government must now shift to long-term socioeconomic development, countering religious radicalism and reinforcing public services.

In Nigeria, 75,000 children risk dying in Тa few monthsУ as hunger grips the countryХs ravaged north-east in the wake of the Boko Haram insurgency, the United Nations warned on Tuesday.

Hundreds of Boko Haram fighters and their families have surrendered in Chad in the past month, security and UN sources said, in a sign the military campaign against them is making headway.

[Й] USAID is promoting an increasingly proactive monitoring approach to quickly report on the alarming conditions in newly accessible parts of northeastern Nigeria.

Renewed violence by a Boko Haram faction in Nigeria and Niger restores a deadly urgency to the conflict just as it seemed the militants were losing traction.