I updated the war that occurred between the Boko Haram and the Cameroonian. If you miss that, read here. After the war ended, Cameroon’s army has killed at least 41 Islamist militants as
it fought off a wave of attacks along its border with Nigeria
in an escalation in the conflict, the government said.
The Information Minister, Issa Tchiroma, disclosed this in
Yaoundé on Monday.
Tchiroma said that the coordinated assaults on five towns
and villages showed a change in tactics by Nigerian Boko
Haram fighters, who have focused on hit-and-run raids on
individual settlements in the past.
“Boko Haram’s campaign to carve out an Islamist caliphate
has spread from its stronghold in Northeast Nigeria to
neighbouring Cameroon.
“Raising fears for an already unstable region also
threatened by Islamist militants in the Sahel,’’ he said.
He added that Cameroon has sent thousands of soldiers to
its Far North region to fight off the militants and said it
launched air attacks on the movement for the first time on
Sunday.
“Units of the Boko Haram group attacked Makari, Amchide,
Limani and Achigachia in a change of strategy which
consists of distracting Cameroonian troops on different
fronts.
“Making them more vulnerable in the face of the mobility
and unpredictability of their attacks,’’ Tchiroma said.
He said that no fewer than 34 militants were killed after the
army laid siege to a base used by the militants in Chogori
and seven others, and one soldier was killed near the town
of Waza.
Army spokesman, Lt.-Col. Didier Badjeck, told newsmen
that the Islamists briefly occupied an army camp in
Achigachia after a fierce fight, but withdrew after air
attacks.
“All the militants had now pulled back into Nigeria,’’ Badjeck
said.
Both Tchiroma and Badjeck said it was too early to give full
details of casualties.
Boko Haram has killed over 40 soldiers and recruited
hundreds of youths during raids in Cameroon’s Far North
region this year.
Source : Vanguard
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