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Cameroonian and Nigerian soldiers have conducted a joint operation, killing about 100 members of the Boko Haram Takfiri terrorist group while pushing the militants out of a northeastern Nigerian village. The Boko Haram losses came in an operation for the liberation of Kumshe, situated 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Nigeria’s border with Cameroon. The troops rescued several hundred hostages in the village, including young girls who were being trained as bombers. "Our boys are still on the field with Nigerian soldiers and have received instructions to continue raids on all Boko Haram border villages until we defeat them," the general stated.
In another development on Saturday, Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff Major General Tukur Buratai said the main roads to and from Maiduguri, the capital of Nigeria's volatile northeastern Borno State, have been reopened. The roads were shut in July 2013 after the beginning of a government-imposed state of emergency in Borno and its neighboring provinces. Buratai also noted that a new armed motorbike battalion would patrol the roads in a bid to help soldiers pursue Boko Haram suspects. Some 20,000 people have been killed and more than 2.5 million others made homeless since the beginning of the Boko Haram bloody militancy in Nigeria in 2009. The militants have recently pledged allegiance to the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group, which is primarily operating in Syria and Iraq.
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Cameroonian and Nigerian soldiers have conducted a joint operation, killing about 100 members of the Boko Haram Takfiri terrorist group while pushing the militants out of a northeastern Nigerian village. The Boko Haram losses came in an operation for the liberation of Kumshe, situated 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Nigeria’s border with Cameroon. The troops rescued several hundred hostages in the village, including young girls who were being trained as bombers. "Our boys are still on the field with Nigerian soldiers and have received instructions to continue raids on all Boko Haram border villages until we defeat them," the general stated.
In another development on Saturday, Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff Major General Tukur Buratai said the main roads to and from Maiduguri, the capital of Nigeria's volatile northeastern Borno State, have been reopened. The roads were shut in July 2013 after the beginning of a government-imposed state of emergency in Borno and its neighboring provinces. Buratai also noted that a new armed motorbike battalion would patrol the roads in a bid to help soldiers pursue Boko Haram suspects. Some 20,000 people have been killed and more than 2.5 million others made homeless since the beginning of the Boko Haram bloody militancy in Nigeria in 2009. The militants have recently pledged allegiance to the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group, which is primarily operating in Syria and Iraq.
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A sister publication L'Oeil du Sahel has confirmed that Lieutenant Colonel Beltus Kwene, commander of the Southern Zone of Operation Alpha in the Far North region combating the Nigerian Islamic sect, Boko Haram has died from injuries he sustained during a mine explosion yesterday. We of this publication stand shoulder-to-shoulder with his family.
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Cameroonian youths living close to the border with Nigeria are benefitting from the efforts of a man who left his administrative duties in a well-established company and created an information technology training center to empower youths and reduce the chances of them joining the Boko Haram terrorist group.
Wakil Idi, 34, said he decided to help when he found out unemployment was leading young people in his town of Kousseri, which borders Chad and is close to Nigeria, to join Boko Haram.
The Islamist terror group has increased attacks in the area in the past seven years.
He said many of the youth left but never returned, and those who escaped from suspected Boko Haram strongholds told stories of how they were sent to loot, kill and burn at schools and churches.
Idi said he learned the terrorist group was offering up to about $5,500 for each person kidnapped or killed, and that was tempting to poor, suffering and jobless youths.
Since 2013, Boko Haram has kidnapped scores of people from Cameroon, including a French family of seven, a German citizen, 10 Chinese road construction engineers, as well as traditional rulers and clergy.
Cameroon's government has said it refused to pay ransoms for their release but said it negotiated their freedom.
Idi said he was able to flee to Cameroon's economic capital, Douala, to learn information technology with the hope of returning to help his fellow Cameroonians by educating them on the dangers of joining Boko Haram and, more importantly, by providing jobs for the youth.
He said even though he has only four desktop computers before returning to Kousseri, he has not been discouraged from his plans to help young people in his hometown.
Among the hundreds who have been trained at the computer institute is 36-year-old Hassa Abbashmir.
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Cameroonian youths living close to the border with Nigeria are benefitting from the efforts of a man who left his administrative duties in a well-established company and created an information technology training center to empower youths and reduce the chances of them joining the Boko Haram terrorist group.
Wakil Idi, 34, said he decided to help when he found out unemployment was leading young people in his town of Kousseri, which borders Chad and is close to Nigeria, to join Boko Haram.
The Islamist terror group has increased attacks in the area in the past seven years.
He said many of the youth left but never returned, and those who escaped from suspected Boko Haram strongholds told stories of how they were sent to loot, kill and burn at schools and churches.
Idi said he learned the terrorist group was offering up to about $5,500 for each person kidnapped or killed, and that was tempting to poor, suffering and jobless youths.
Since 2013, Boko Haram has kidnapped scores of people from Cameroon, including a French family of seven, a German citizen, 10 Chinese road construction engineers, as well as traditional rulers and clergy.
Cameroon's government has said it refused to pay ransoms for their release but said it negotiated their freedom.
Idi said he was able to flee to Cameroon's economic capital, Douala, to learn information technology with the hope of returning to help his fellow Cameroonians by educating them on the dangers of joining Boko Haram and, more importantly, by providing jobs for the youth.
He said even though he has only four desktop computers before returning to Kousseri, he has not been discouraged from his plans to help young people in his hometown.
Among the hundreds who have been trained at the computer institute is 36-year-old Hassa Abbashmir.
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Cameroon defence forces will intensity the fight against the terrorist group Boko Haram in the course of the year 2016. Priority will be given to the fight against terrorism which has led to the death of scores of Cameroonian military and civilians despite major victories that has reduced the operational capacity of the terrorist movement. In order to attain the objective, the military hierarchy has recommended discipline within the ranks of the army. The Defence Chief of Staff, Lt General Rene Claude Meka presented the agenda of Cameroon’s defence forces for 2016 during a new wishes ceremony at the Ministry Head Quarters in Yaoundé.
During the event he strongly condemned the September 9th, 2015 protest match staged by some soldiers who were part of the Cameroon contingent of the stabilisation mission in the Central African Republic. He described the demonstrations on the streets of Yaoundé as an unimaginable gross violation of the statutory text of regulating Cameroon’s defence forces. Lt General Rene Claude Meka in this light called on senior military officers to severely sanction all forms of indiscipline within the Cameroon army. “Pirate attacks, incursions in the East region resulting from the instability in the Central African Republic are not as preoccupying as the fight against Boko Haram which is now asymmetric” the defence chief of staff noted.
The enemy’s fire power has been seriously weaken and they have now resorted to suicide attacks. We don’t know when the war will end but we have upgraded our resources, logistics and equipment to efficiently eradicate the terrorist, he added. The Defence Chief of Staff used the occasion to salute the bravery of vigilante groups that have worked alongside the defence forces to thwart attacks by the terrorists. The ceremony which ended with a common meal began with a review of the just ended year by the deputy Army Chief of staff.
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