(Business in Cameroon) - With school resumption approaching (7th September, 2015), Cameroon’s secondary education Minister, Louis Bapes Bapes, reached out to various heads of schools around the border, urging them to ‘’set up in each institution, a security committee under the guidance of school counsels and students’ parent association, reinforce the collaboration with the administrative, traditional and religious authorities, as well as police forces and other education partners.’’

These instructions contained in a letter, dated August 24, 2015, which was published in the ‘’Mutations’’ Weekly, also involves the setting up, in the concerned institutions, of a ‘’school police’’ composed of good-moral students. This police will be tasked to inform the school’s executives of any suspicious activities in and around the school premises.

All the measures mentioned above fall under the framework of the fight against Nigerian Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram, which has recently change its operating mode in Cameroon, now targeting locations with a higher population density. Thus, explaining the need for more security in schools which represent excellent targets for such attacks.