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Rita Akana
The Nigerian Islamist sect Boko Haram carried out an attack on Mahoula town located in the Far North region of Cameroon on Saturday the 3rd of January. Cameroon Concord gathered that the Boko Haram militants burned down buildings and destroyed the local hospital. A detail report on the casualties is yet to be released by Cameroon government officials.
Our informant hinted that the Mahoula attack was aimed at a vast cattle ranch found in Mamani situated some 4 kilometres from the Waza natural game reserve. At the time of writing this report, information filtered that a regiment of the Rapid Intervention Battalion had arrived Mahoula.
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Sama Ernest
Edgar Alain Mebe Ngo'o, the Minister Delegate at the Presidency of the Republic in charge of Defence has reiterated the Cameroon army’s determination to win the war against the Nigerian Islamist sect Boko Haram. Minister Mebe Ngo’o, one of President Biya’s numerous Francophone Beti-Ewondo cabinet ‘ministers made the declaration during an epaulets ceremony that held at the supreme military command centre in Yaoundé the nation’s capital on Thursday January 1st.
The Defence Minister observed that Cameroon as a nation will win the wars now confronting the nation on two fronts; Boko Haram in the Far North region and the armed militia men from the Central African Republic in the East. Edgar Alain Mebe Ngo'o reaffirmed the determination and commitment of the Cameroonian army to defend Cameroon’s territorial integrity. Said the CPDM Minister, “ I would like to assure the President of the Republic and through him, the whole nation that our forces will engage with more determination, tenacity in this war and it will be won”.
It is vital to include in this report that Minister Mebe Ngo’o recently told members of the National Assembly that Cameroon will require an additional 20,000 troops to be able to put up a good resistance against the Boko Haram onslaught in the Far North Region.
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Sama Ernest
Two Cameroon soldiers are reported dead after a mine explosion on Amchide-Kolofata axis. Our military informant observed that a vehicle belonging to a regiment of the Rapid Intervention Battalion (Bir), jumped on a mine this Monday, December 29th around 12:00 GMT . The mine exploded on the Amchide-Kolofata road in the Mayo-Sava Division of the Far North region. Two Cameroonian soldiers were killed and two others were injured.
Meanwhile Cameroon military officials have released the names of the two soldiers of the 41 Mechanized Infantry Division who were killed in an ambush at the Waza-Line in Logone-Et-Chari Division. They are Mitna John and CWO Dobogsala. Our thoughts and prayers are with their families. We of this publication would love to express our unflinching support to the men and women in uniform for the huge sacrifices they are making to keep the homeland safe.
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At least 30 people have been killed in a fresh attack by Nigeria’s Boko Haram militants in neighboring Cameroon. The raid happened in Mbaljuel village in northern Cameroon, just a few kilometers from the country’s border with Nigeria on Friday night, Cameroonian newspaper L'Oeil du Sahel said on Saturday. The regional governor, Mijiyawa Bakary, confirmed the assault by the militants and noted that the victims were civilians. "We do not yet have all the facts, but our divisional officers and security officials are filling us in," Bakary said.
The terrorists also conducted an attack on the Waza-Mora highway, killing one Cameroonian soldier. "A corporal was killed and three soldiers were wounded," a Cameroonian soldier said, asking not to be named. The violence came almost a week after the Cameroonian army dismantled a training camp belonging to Boko Haram in the northern district of Mayo-Danay. Boko Haram Takfiris have expanded their operations in Cameroon in recent months, launching cross-border attacks.
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Chi Prudence Asong
Samuel Kleda, Archbishop of Douala has said the conflict generated by the Islamic group Boko Haram in the Far North Region of Cameroon will not culminate to religious tensions in the country. The Roman Catholic Archbishop made the remarks on Wednesday, December 25, 2014 during an interview with Christopher Boisbouvier, presenter of the program "Guest Africa" on Radio France Internationale (RFI). Said Archbishop Kleda "For religious tension, it will be difficult because those who enter in northern Cameroon kill Muslims and Christians, which means that they are people who want to take power. This is a political issue. "
Archbishop Samuel Kleda however did acknowledge that for some time, the situation has been difficult for Catholics operating in the Far North Region of the country, because of the repeated abductions of priests and missionaries. “One thinks especially of two Italian priests, the French priest and Canadian religious kidnapped between 2013 and 2014. Obviously the situation has become very difficult, many missionaries are forced to leave their missions but there are still some who remain in their parishes where they work in large cities, "lamented the Archbishop of Douala.
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5 Boko Haram fighters were captured on Sunday, around midnight at the Mora- Waza-axis in the Far North Region by Cameroon forces. The operation was carried out by a special unit of the Rapid Intervention Battalion (BIR). The five terrorists are presently being interrogated and it is widely believed they will assist the Cameroon army in intelligence gathering.
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