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Nigerian and Cameroonian troops have carried out a joint military operation against Boko Haram, the Nigerian Army said in a statement on Wednesday.
“In order to clear fleeing Boko Haram terrorists hibernating within remote and border areas, Nigerian and Cameroonian troops have carried out another joint operation to weed out Boko Haram terrorists along Nigeria and Cameroon border,” said Brigadier General Sani Kukasheka Usman, Director of Public Relations of the Nigerian Army.
The two day joint operation was led by Col Dourai and Lt Col Mohaman of the Cameroonian Defence Forces had troops drawn from the Cameroon’s Battalion Rapid Intervention and 151 Task Force Battalion of 21 Brigade, Nigerian Army.
“During the operation which ended yesterday Tuesday, troops of the two countries cleared Siyara, Kote, Sigawa and proceeded to Bulabundibe towns. Other areas cleared include AdeleKe, Tchatike and Lamukura villages,” he said.
General Usman said while conducting the operation the troops came in contact with Boko Haram terrorists and “neutralised many of them, apprehended two others, while many other terrorists escaped with gunshot wounds”.
“The Troops further recovered an unserviceable Toyota Canter, 7 Dane Guns and 5 Boko Haram terrorists flags, 4 vehicle tyres, 2 Motorcycles and vehicle spare parts,” he added.
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The delegation of UN diplomats have given a pass mark to CAMEROON's role in the war against boko haram and management of refugees .
The first lap of their 2 day tour took the 15 UN Security Council Ambassadors in the Lake Chad Basin area and later at the Unity Palace. Announced as an audience, the meeting turned into a working session with the Cameroonian head of state. The unprecedented nature of the visit to the area, the purpose of the meeting, the size of the delegation and the quality of the hosts led to the choice of the Council of Ministers' room as a framework.
It was at 10:50 am that the delegation of the UN envoys arrives at the unity palace. Under the joint leadership of Britain's ambassadors (whose country holds the rotating presidency of the Security Council for the month of March), France and Senegal. In the room chosen for the occasion, the Head of State himself welcomed each of the 15 UN ambassadors personally. After this welcome ritual, the doors closed, the meeting was held in camera. The head of state is surrounded by three members of the government, the minister delegated to the presidency in charge of defense, Joseph Beti Assomo, the Minister of Territorial Administration and Decentralization, René-Emmanuel Sadi, The Minister delegate at the president in charge of Commonwealth Relations, Joseph Dion Ngute, and Ambassador Michel Tommo Monthe, Permanent Representative of Cameroon to the United Nations.
Speaking to the press after the consultation, which lasted nearly an hour, the co-presidents of the UN mission unanimously praised Cameroon for its exemplary commitment to the fight against the terrorist sect Boko Haram, For its hospitality to refugees and for its efforts in terms of resilience to sustainable development. Britain's Ambassador Mathew Rycroft stressed that their discussions with the Cameroonian Head of State focused on the factors that constitute the breeding ground for terrorism in the Lake Chad area, including poverty and lack of Basic social services. The United Nations, he said, advised the States in the area to adopt a comprehensive approach to address the root causes of terrorism, including governance and development. The visit is thus in line with the prospect of a co-operation orientation towards the challenges of security, humanitarian emergency and socio-economic development. The French ambassador to the UN calls the war against the terror group in the Lake Chad Basin silent.
François Delattre proposed to radically reverse the gaze on this area. "The Lake Chad region has not received the attention it deserves from the international community and this mission is there to remedy this mistake, " notes the head of the French mission to United Nations. "We have come to listen, accompany and encourage Cameroon and other countries to meet all these challenges with the contribution of the international community," he concludes. For the Senegalese ambassador Fode Seck, "this war has been imposed on Cameroon which remains a haven of peace in the sub region". He expressed concern about Cameroon's heavy burden of refugees.
Before leaving the Unity Palace, each ambassador received the medal of the fiftieth anniversary of the independence and reunification of Cameroon from the hands of the Cameroonian head of state.
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At least one person was killed by Boko Haram in Cameroon on Sunday in an area where hundreds of attacks have occurred since 2014. Cameroonian newspaper, L’Oeil du Sahel, said the attack today occurred in Waza, in the country’s far north, not very far from the border with Nigeria where the terrorists.
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Suspected Boko Haram suicide bombers have attacked the Cameroonian town of Amchide in the country’s far north.
There are two dead and two injured for now, reported prominent Cameroonian newspaper, L’Oeil du Sahel.
The suicide attack took place on Wednesday afternoon, the newspaper said in French.
Boko Haram has been wreaking havoc in Cameroon since 2014. There have now been about 500 attacks and over 50 successful suicide bombings that have killed about 150 soldiers and policemen and close to 2000 civilians. There have also been about 60 unsuccessful suicide attempts within three years.
More than 1000 people have also been kidnapped in Cameroon even as the battle has been raging around Lake Chad where the son of Boko Haram founder is in charge.
Reports have said the Boko Haram faction led by Abu Musa al-barnawi, the son of Mohammed Yusuf, which is located around Lake Chad, has been attacking security forces and trying to indoctrinate impoverished population there that the enemy was the secular way of life, and not the terrorists who have pledged allegiance to the Islamic State and modelled their atrocities after the Middle East killers.
The other faction led by Abubakar Shekau has suffered setbacks in recent time with the fall of Camp Zero inside the Sambisa forest. But that faction is not defeated as members seem to have relocated to Gwoza.
Like in Cameroon, the regional war seems to be widening again in Nigeria in recent months and the Governor of Borno state, the birth place of Boko Haram, last week called a security meeting as things worsen.
The Nigerian government has been claiming that Boko Haram had been defeated and could no longer launch massive attacks against security forces. But recent events have put a lie to that claim.
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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – Seven suspected Boko Haram militants blew themselves on the outskirts of a northeast Nigerian city on Friday, a local aid agency said, in an attack witnesses said targeted refugees preparing to return to their home villages. The News Agency of Nigeria said the attackers were nine.
The bombing took place outside Maiduguri, the population centre at the heart of a government campaign to eradicate the Islamist group, whose more than seven-year insurgency has killed 15,000 people and forced some two million from their homes.
The Borno State Emergency Management Agency said eight members of a local militia, the civilian Joint Task Force, were wounded in the attack, which underscored Boko Haram’s ability to continue to operate despite the government’s insistence it has crushed the group.
Witnesses told Reuters the attackers detonated their bombs
near a large refugee camp, outside which crowds of displaced people were gathering around trucks to form convoys before trying to return home.
In December, President Muhammadu Buhari said the capture of a key camp marked the “final crushing” of Boko Haram in its last enclave in Sambisa forest, once the group’s stronghold.
But since then the group, which split into two factions last year, has stepped up its attacks.
One Boko Haram faction is led by Abubakar Shekau from the Sambisa forest and the other, allied to jihadist group Islamic State, and led by Abu Musab al-Barnawi, based in the Lake Chad region.
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Boko Haram terrorists on Thursday killed three Cameroonian soldiers in the country’s far north, a newspaper is reporting.
Cameroonian newspaper, L’Oeil du Sahel, said the three soldiers were killed when their vehicle climbed a landmine planted by the terrorists.
The soldiers had been deployed to Gouzda Vreket in the Mayo-Tsanaga department in the country’s far north. They died there.
Their death comes just a day after another Cameroonian soldier died on Wednesday in Borno state. He also died when the vehicle he was on climbed a landmine.
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