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Fighting reportedly took place on Sunday night between the Rapid Response Battalion and Boko Haram near the locality of Kerawa in the Far North region of Cameroon. Cameroon Concord has been reliably informed that 11 Boko Haram terrorists were killed and 10 Cameroon service men seriously injured.
According to information received from our military informant, Boko Haram fighters were preparing for a surprise attack at the end of this Sunday evening in the district of Kolofata, department of Mayo-Sava, the Far North region. The group of terrorist succeeded to infiltrate but were however spotted by a reconnaissance mission on patrol at Kerawa who ambushed them. Our source also revealed that some of the militants escaped to Wara.
At the time of writing this report news filtered to our news desk that 20 passengers travelling on a bus including six women, who were returning from a weekly market near Koza (Mayo-Tsanaga), were abducted yesterday by Boko Haram fighters near the village of Adangadanga in the district of Mayo-Moskota some few kilometres from Nguetchewe.
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Michael S. Hoza, US Ambassador to Cameroon in a press release, has put a 7 million dollar price on the head of Abubakar Shekau, the leader of the Nigerian Islamic sect Boko Haram. According to local media report in Cameroon, the American diplomat explained that a price on the head of Abubakar Shekau is justified.
The boss of the US diplomatic mission in Cameroon also added that the Nigerian Islamic sect has become synonymous with global terrorism, Islamic fanatism and barbarism. Ambassador Hoza further observed that apart from the physical manifestation of violence, the Nigerian jihardists also encourage moral violence.
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Chadian leader Idriss Deby answered present at the Ndjamena International airport to receive the bodies of the 17 Chadian soldiers killed in Cameroon and Nigeria by the Nigerian Islamic sect Boko Haram. The Chadian servicemen were killed in Fotokol and Gambaru. The 17 were buried on Friday at the Ndjamena Military Cemetery. Before burial, the 17 soldiers of the Chadian army were decorated posthumously by the Head of Government of Chad, Kalzeubé Payimi Deubet.
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A senior Nigerian official says an underway multilateral offensive against Boko Haram will root out the Takfiri terrorist group within six weeks. Nigeria’s National Security Advisor Sambo Dasuki said on Monday, “All known Boko Haram camps will be taken out. They won’t be there. They will be dismantled.” The official was answering to a question about what gains could be made against the militants before March 28, the new date for the general elections in Nigeria. On Saturday, Nigeria’s electoral commission announced the postponement of the February 14 presidential and legislative elections until March 28 because security forces fighting Boko Haram could not ensure safety of the voters. Dasuki said he believes the military cooperation, agreed two weeks ago between Nigeria and its neighbors Cameroon, Chad, and Niger, will prove decisive against Boko Haram.
The countries, together with Benin, another of Nigeria’s neighbors, have pledged to create an 8,700-strong force to fight the militancy, which has been spilling over beyond the country’s borders. A major offensive with warplanes and ground forces from Chad and Nigeria has already forced the militants out from a dozen Nigerian towns and cities. Speaking on condition of anonymity, a group of US intelligence officials said on February 6 that the terrorist group has about 4,000-6,000 “hardcore” members. As the war against Boko Haram intensifies, the perception that it is wedged by disaffected and jobless youths who oppose and hate Western Education is becoming pedestrian. The sophistication of the command and operational structures of Boko Haram leaves no one in doubt about this reality. The weapons deployed to commit the ongoing pogrom appear to have been acquired and brought to the war zones through a complicated network. It is hard to believe that a conflict of this magnitude can occur without a complex network of individuals and organizations supporting Boko Haram’s criminal war effort. It may be reasonably suggested that it is a political establishment serving distinct interests in Nigeria and Cameroon. In Nigeria, it has never sought ransom for the many victims it has abducted. In Cameroon although officially classified as a nebulous or illusive enemy, it has turned abduction for ransom into a lucrative business.
Boko Haram in Nigeria is a child of Nigerian history and the impunity of Northern Nigeria’s Military establishment. Armed conflict is part of Nigeria history. It is also a business which has enriched many. People including generations unborn learn from history. The savaged brutality meted on civilians and civilian objects in Nigeria pre-exist Boko Haram. These acts of impunity were some of the methods deployed by successive military regimes, most of them from Northern Generals to accede and sustain power. The ongoing slaughter by Boko Haram follows the same pattern which in 1966 led to the Nigeria/Biafra War. The underlying cause of the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Southerners, mainly of the Ibo ethnic groups in the North was never comprehensively investigated, if at all. There is no gainsaying that had the crimes been investigated, the result would have pointed to some powerful individuals within the Nigerian Military structure of Northern origin. For these, political power and control of the economy could only be attained through scapegoating communities whom they perceived as serious competitors.
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The five African countries that will form the Multinational Force against the Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram have pledged to mobilize 8,700 men. In a final statement published on Saturday the 7th of February, the experts from from Benin, Cameroon, Niger, Nigeria and Chad have made pledges which totalled 8,700 military personnel, police and civilians. The figure announced before the Yaoundé meeting was 7,500.
Cameroon Concord understands a small group will work in the coming days on details of the contribution of each State and develop the initial budget for the Force. The five countries agreed that their contributions represent the different branches of the armed and civilian specialists needed to effectively implement the mandate of the Force" African fight against Boko Haram, said the statement.
The concept of operation of the force will then be forwarded to the Council for Peace and Security of the African Union for approval and submission to the UN Security Council. It is vital to include in this report that Chad has already committed its troops on two fronts: at the borders with Cameroon-Nigeria where they now control the town of Gambaru after heavy fighting with the Boko Haram militants and Niger where they supported the Niger forces during 'Boko Haram’s recent attack that came from Nigeria.
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Boko Haram Takfiri militants have launched an attack on a border town in Niger, which has also witnessed a bomb attack near a market. According to residents, the militants assaulted the southeastern town of Diffa on Saturday night, after launching their first major attack in Niger on Friday in the area that borders Nigeria. They added that the clashes between Boko Haram and Niger's military lasted until 5 a.m. local time (0400 GMT) when the extremists were forced to escape. Shortly after the attack was repelled, an assailant, who is believed to be female, blew up her explosives in Diffa's pepper market that receives traders and customers from Nigeria and other nations in the region. “This young girl who was wearing the bomb made it explode right in the middle of the market,” said resident Kader Lawan, adding, “At the moment the market is surrounded by soldiers, and the rest of the town also.”
Reports said that the attack left one person dead and at least 10 others injured. The Takfiri militant group has carried out similar attacks in crowded markets and busy bus stations, killing hundreds of people. However, this bomb attack was the first of its kind outside Nigeria. Over the past months, the military campaign against Boko Haram has extended across the region, as the militants had staged attacks in both Cameroon and Niger last week. During a Saturday meeting in Cameroon's capital, Yaounde, regional and African Union officials presented a proposal for an 8,700-strong force to fight Boko Haram, with manpower coming from Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon, Niger and Benin. Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for a number of deadly shooting attacks and bombings in various parts of Nigeria since the beginning of its operations in 2009, which have left over 13,000 people dead and 1.5 million displaced.
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