Heavy fighting going on between Cameroon government forces and Boko Haram in Kolofata

Heavy fighting is reportedly going on between the  Cameroon army and the Nigerian Islamic sect Boko Haram since the early hours of Monday, January 12, 2015 Cameroon Concord has learnt.  The violent clashes erupted between the Cameroonian military and fighters of the Islamist sect who infiltrated the Kolofata district deep within the department of Mayo-Sava in the Far North region and are trying at the moment to seize a Cameroonian military camp operated by the Rapid Intervention Battalion (Bir). It is important to include in this report that Kolofata is the locality where the wife of Cameroon’s Vice Prime Amadou Ali was held hostage and later on released after a bloody attack by Boko Haram.