YAOUNDI: A northern region of Cameroon, which has suffered frequent attacks by the jihadist Boko Haram group, has banned the use of the full Islamic veil, governor Bakari Midjiyawa said on Thursday.

“The full veil is completely forbidden” in the Far North region, where two women suicide attackers who were wearing the covering killed 11 people on Sunday, Midjiyawa said.

“We have asked... police to question any woman who wears the full veil,” he added.

On Saturday, in another sign of Boko Haram’s threat to regional security, a suicide bomber disguised as a woman in a full-face veil blew himself up in Chad’s capital N’Djamena, killing 15. The full veil is banned in Muslim-majority Chad.

Published in Dawn, July 17th, 2015

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