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Cameroonian armed forces, launched last Friday, a special operation in the Lake Chad area to neutralize Boko Haram, sources tell Cameroon Concord.
Special forces from the Cameroonian military, from the Sector 1 of the Joint Multinational Forces (FMM) based in Mora (Far North) region, supported by the Alpha operations and Emergence 4 units grouped together last Friday to launch the military offensive against the insurgents.
The operation according to military sources is the largest, ever conducted by the Cameroonian defence forces since the outbreak of the war against Boko Haram.
The last special operation conducted by Cameroonian defence forces on May 10th and 11th of 2016, against the bases of Boko Haram in the forest of Madawaya in neigbouring Nigerian,resulted in the neutralization and the complete destruction of three camps of the sect.
One of Boko Haram's leaders, called Boukar KAOU, was captured along with five of his fellow fighters during this special operation.
Also during this operation, 58 Boko Haram terrorrists were neutralized, several weapons recovered, including three AK47 assault rifles, 02 assault rifles, 18 hunting weapons and landmines.
This new operation, we learn, has been pushed forward and supported by the Cameroonian authorities, meanwhile another operation led by the Chadian army is on the other side pushing on to drive the insurgents out of the southern boarders of Niger, where the Islamist sect recently caused numerous casualties within the military and civilians.
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The Nigerian army has said it successfully rescued more than 5,000 people that were being held by Islamists terror group Boko Haram during an operation over the weekend in the northeast region of the country.
The army said troops supported by members of a grassroots security force conducted raids in 15 villages on Sunday, during which they “killed six Boko Haram terrorists and wounded several others”.
Reuters news agency reports the army as saying, in an emailed statement, that its troops liberated over 5,000 people that were held by the militants.
Since Boko Haram’s insurgency, more than 15,000 people have been killed and 2 million others displaced in Nigeria and neighbouring Chad, Niger and Cameroon.
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4 civilians were killed yesterday night respectively in the villages of Gouzoudoum (Kolofata) and Kaldjiwa (Mora) in the Far North region of Cameroon following two raids by Boko Haram insurgents. The terrorists looted Shops and took away motorcycles belonging to villagers.
Cameroon has recently been handing out motorbikes and bicycles to vigilante groups in these affected areas to monitor its porous northern border with Nigeria. It hopes the youths can track down suspected Boko Haram suicide bombers.
About 50 vigilantes sing and dance to local war songs as they prepare to venture into Cameroon's northern frontline with Boko Haram. They know the terrain to their finger tips and are capable of outmaneuvering the insurgents.
They wield different versions of handmade machetes, a few Kalashnikovs and anything they could use to scare off the Islamists. Since their inception, they have had some amount of success fending off an already weakened Boko Haram.
By giving the vigilantes motorbikes and bicycles, Midjiyawa Bakari, who is the Governor of Cameroon's Far North region, told DW that he hopes they can "track down unwanted visitors."
"After a long period of time spent encouraging people to contribute to the fight against Boko Haram, the inhabitants of villages bordering Nigeria have been joining these self-defense groups in large numbers," Bakari said.
"Those members that died protecting Cameroon did not lay down their lives in vain. Their country will always remember and honor them," he added.
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Cameroon:Resident French Citizens Donate 12,000 School Books To Schools In Boko Haram Affected Areas
French citizens residing in Cameroon with support from Association pour la Diffusion Internationale Francophone” (ADIFLOR), have joined the Government to support pupils studying in the Far North Region of the country. Visiting French Senator Louis Duvernois, handed a consignment of 12,000 books to the Minister of Basic Education, Youssouf Hadidja Alim last Friday June 17, 2016 in the presence of French Ambassador to Cameroon, Christine Robichon and Consulate Adviser of Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea, Pierre Clerfeuille.
Senator Louis Duvernois said the books meant for 89 school libraries in the Far North Region are reserved for children to promote their level of education and improve their reading skills especially at home. He noted that the books will be of great importance to the children who are unable to go to school due to constant terrorist attacks in the region. The French Senator said while at home, the books will help the children make up with studying time.
While thanking the French community for their support, the Minister of Basic Education, Youssouf Hadidja Alim said books are useful items for pupils both in class and as individuals at home. The books, according to the Minister of Basic Education, will be distributed to some schools in the Diamare, Mayo Tsanaga, Mayo Sava, and Logone et Chari Divisions in the Far North Region. Youssouf Hadidja Alim explained that the donations have been packed in such a way that transportation will be safe and distribution made easier. She called on the children to make good use of the books.
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Two weeks after an attack by the Islamist group Boko Haram left at least 30 people dead, the border community of Bosso, in Niger, has become a ghost town. Most of its population left and the area remains at risk to violence.
A shoe, a half-full suitcase strewn in the backyard, the house doors left open… Most residents of Bosso left everything behind two weeks ago when the first gunshots rang through the town.
Among them is El Hajj Abba.
Yes, we are scared. We don’t have weapons, so it’s normal to be scared, he says as he stands on top of his car, strapping a pile of belongings he can bring to the IDP camp he and his family now stay at.
Abba is Nigerian. He fled to Bosso, in Niger, after Boko Haram militants wreaked havoc in his home country, only a few miles away. But the armed group has been attacking several neighboring towns in Niger as well, in the past couple of years, forcing populations to move back and forth between towns and makeshift camps located in the bush.
It’s not the first time that Bosso has been targeted. The most recent attack was on June 3. It was a Friday, just after 8 PM, remembers resident Abdelaziz Zembada, who lived next to a police station that was targeted.
I took one of my kids, my wife took two, he says. By the time we put them to safety and came back to fetch my daughter, a mortar hit my house. My neighbor’s children and my daughter were killed.
Officially, there were no civilians killed during the attack, only soldiers. But some bodies can still be found inside houses and the smell of death is everywhere.
Most of Bosso's estimated 25,000 residents left town. Two thirds were refugees and internally displaced persons. Alarmed residents in the general area also left their homes, leaving an estimated 50,000 people displaced.
On a deserted market street, the decomposing body of a goat dries under the scorching sun, next to a ransacked stall. There is no water, no electricity or phone network, and very little food left in town after Boko Haram looted most of it.
But despite all that, resident Souleyman Salissa decided to stay.
He says we can tell it’s going better. Yesterday, we heard gunshot, but we were not worried.
Salissa says the heavy military presence reassured him. And, as a hairdresser, they are his only customers.
There are not a lot of people left. It’s disheartening, he says. We would like more residents to come back, and we need assistance with food, water and electricity.
That day, an official delegation led by Interior Minister Mohamed Bazoum visited the town for the first time since the attack and organized a meeting to reassure the population.
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Kuda in northern Nigeria was the scene of the atrocity, which also involved looting food supplies and burning homes
Boko Haram militants have killed 24 people, mostly women, as they mourned at a funeral in a village in northern Nigeria, looting and burning their houses down.
Suspected Boko Haram militants also attacked a village in Niger while a delegation of ministers was visiting, killing seven police officers and wounding 12 in a gun battle.
Some women were still missing after Thursday’s attack on the village of Kuda in Nigeria’s Adamawa state, according to a resident, Moses Kwagh. Maina Ularamu, a local community leader, said the attack occurred during the “mourning celebration” for a local leader.
“They came on motorcycles and opened fire on the crowd, killing 24,” he said. “Most of the victims were women. They looted food supplies and burnt homes and they left almost an hour later.”
A police spokesman, Othman Abubakar, put the death toll at 18, adding that many more were injured. “Our people who fled their homes to escape Boko Haram attacks have been returning because they can’t live in the camps. But now they are facing threats from Boko Haram who launch nocturnal attacks,” he said.
Ularamu said that although Boko Haram had been chased out of the nearby town of Gulak, militants still lived in the villages surrounding it.
Boko Haram threatened to overrun Adamawa state in 2014, sweeping down from their stronghold in Sambisa forest, which lies just across the border in Borno state. That attack, which destroyed bridges and homes on the only road south to Yola, forced tens of thousands of people to flee from their homes into camps and host communities in the state capital.
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