The coordinated assaults on five towns and villages showed a change in tactics by Nigerian Boko Haram fighters, who have focused on hit-and-run raids on individual settlements in the past, Information Minister Issa Tchiroma added.
Boko Haram’s campaign to carve out an Islamist caliphate has spread from its stronghold in northeast Nigeria to neighbouring Cameroon, raising fears for an already unstable region also threatened by Islamist militants in the Sahel.
Cameroon has sent thousands of soldiers to its Far North region to fight off the militants and said it launched air attacks on the movement for the first time on Sunday.
“Units of the (Boko Haram) group attacked Makari, Amchide, Limani and Achigachia in a change of strategy which consists of distracting Cameroonian troops on different fronts, making them more vulnerable in the face of the mobility and unpredictability of their attacks” Tchiroma said late on Sunday.
At least 34 militants were killed after the army laid siege to a base used by the militants in Chogori, and seven others and one soldier were killed near the town of Waza, he said.
The Islamists briefly occupied an army camp in Achigachia after a fierce fight, but withdrew after air attacks, army spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Didier Badjeck told Reuters by phone.
All the militants had now pulled back into Nigeria, Badjeck said.
Both Tchiroma and Badjeck said it was too early to give full details of casualties.
Boko Haram has killed more than 40 soldiers and recruited hundreds of youths during raids in Cameroon’s Far North region this year.
And also, more than 100 suspected Nigerian Islamic sect Boko Haram militants were killed and over 200 arrested during an operation conducted by Cameroonian army on Friday night in Far-North Region of Cameroon, an army source told Xinhua over phone Saturday.
The operation took place in Doble, a place in Far-North Region bordering Nigeria, and was conducted by Cameroon Air Force and Rapid Intervention Battalion, an elite army unit stationing in the north.
During the operation, three Cameroonian air force pilots were seriously injured, the source said.
In the same night, 23 Cameroonian civilians were killed and a village was burned by suspected Boko Haram militants in Mozogo, a place in Far-North Region.
The suspected Boko Haram militants are active in the north of Cameroon, they often attack the villages in the area, pillaging properties of the villagers and sometimes taking foreign and local people as hostages.
The Cameroonian government has strengthened the military might this year by sending more troops in the north to fight against the militants.
Cameroon’s army killed at least 41 Islamist militants as it fought off a wave of attacks along its border with Nigeria over the weekend in an escalation in the conflict, the government said.
The coordinated assaults on five towns and villages showed a change in tactics by Nigerian Boko Haram fighters, who have focused on hit-and-run raids on individual settlements in the past, Information Minister Issa Tchiroma added.
Boko Haram’s campaign to carve out an
Islamist caliphate has spread from its stronghold in northeast Nigeria
to neighboring Cameroon, raising fears for an already unstable region
also threatened by Islamist militants in the Sahel.
Cameroon has sent thousands of soldiers to its Far North region to fight off the militants and said it launched air attacks on the movement for the first time on Sunday.
“Units of the (Boko Haram) group attacked Makari, Amchide, Limani and Achigachia in a change of
strategy which consists of distracting Cameroonian troops on different
fronts, making them more vulnerable in the face of the mobility and
unpredictability of their attacks” Tchiroma said late on Sunday.
At least 34 militants were killed after the
army laid siege to a base used by the militants in Chogori, and seven
others and one soldier were killed near the town of Waza, he said.
The Islamists briefly occupied an army camp in Achigachia after a fierce fight, but withdrew after air attacks, army spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Didier Badjeck told Reuters by phone.
All the militants had now pulled back into Nigeria, Badjeck said.
Both Tchiroma and Badjeck said it was too early to give full details of casualties.
Boko Haram has killed more than 40 soldiers
and recruited hundreds of youths during raids in Cameroon’s Far North
region this year.
- See more at: http://nigerianpilot.com/cameroon-foils-boko-haram-attacks-kills-41-militants/#sthash.FiJOFs1G.d
Cameroon’s army killed at least 41 Islamist militants as it fought off a wave of attacks along its border with Nigeria over the weekend in an escalation in the conflict, the government said.
The coordinated assaults on five towns and villages showed a change in tactics by Nigerian Boko Haram fighters, who have focused on hit-and-run raids on individual settlements in the past, Information Minister Issa Tchiroma added.
Boko Haram’s campaign to carve out an
Islamist caliphate has spread from its stronghold in northeast Nigeria
to neighboring Cameroon, raising fears for an already unstable region
also threatened by Islamist militants in the Sahel.
Cameroon has sent thousands of soldiers to its Far North region to fight off the militants and said it launched air attacks on the movement for the first time on Sunday.
“Units of the (Boko Haram) group attacked Makari, Amchide, Limani and Achigachia in a change of
strategy which consists of distracting Cameroonian troops on different
fronts, making them more vulnerable in the face of the mobility and
unpredictability of their attacks” Tchiroma said late on Sunday.
At least 34 militants were killed after the
army laid siege to a base used by the militants in Chogori, and seven
others and one soldier were killed near the town of Waza, he said.
The Islamists briefly occupied an army camp in Achigachia after a fierce fight, but withdrew after air attacks, army spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Didier Badjeck told Reuters by phone.
All the militants had now pulled back into Nigeria, Badjeck said.
Both Tchiroma and Badjeck said it was too early to give full details of casualties.
Boko Haram has killed more than 40 soldiers
and recruited hundreds of youths during raids in Cameroon’s Far North
region this year.
- See more at: http://nigerianpilot.com/cameroon-foils-boko-haram-attacks-kills-41-militants/#sthash.FiJOFs1G.dpuf
Cameroon’s army killed at least 41 Islamist militants as it fought off a wave of attacks along its border with Nigeria over the weekend in an escalation in the conflict, the government said.
The coordinated assaults on five towns and villages showed a change in tactics by Nigerian Boko Haram fighters, who have focused on hit-and-run raids on individual settlements in the past, Information Minister Issa Tchiroma added.
Boko Haram’s campaign to carve out an
Islamist caliphate has spread from its stronghold in northeast Nigeria
to neighboring Cameroon, raising fears for an already unstable region
also threatened by Islamist militants in the Sahel.
Cameroon has sent thousands of soldiers to its Far North region to fight off the militants and said it launched air attacks on the movement for the first time on Sunday.
“Units of the (Boko Haram) group attacked Makari, Amchide, Limani and Achigachia in a change of
strategy which consists of distracting Cameroonian troops on different
fronts, making them more vulnerable in the face of the mobility and
unpredictability of their attacks” Tchiroma said late on Sunday.
At least 34 militants were killed after the
army laid siege to a base used by the militants in Chogori, and seven
others and one soldier were killed near the town of Waza, he said.
The Islamists briefly occupied an army camp in Achigachia after a fierce fight, but withdrew after air attacks, army spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Didier Badjeck told Reuters by phone.
All the militants had now pulled back into Nigeria, Badjeck said.
Both Tchiroma and Badjeck said it was too early to give full details of casualties.
Boko Haram has killed more than 40 soldiers
and recruited hundreds of youths during raids in Cameroon’s Far North
region this year.
- See more at: http://nigerianpilot.com/cameroon-foils-boko-haram-attacks-kills-41-militants/#sthash.FiJOFs1G.dpuf
Cameroon’s army killed at least 41 Islamist militants as it fought off a wave of attacks along its border with Nigeria over the weekend in an escalation in the conflict, the government said.
The coordinated assaults on five towns and villages showed a change in tactics by Nigerian Boko Haram fighters, who have focused on hit-and-run raids on individual settlements in the past, Information Minister Issa Tchiroma added.
Boko Haram’s campaign to carve out an
Islamist caliphate has spread from its stronghold in northeast Nigeria
to neighboring Cameroon, raising fears for an already unstable region
also threatened by Islamist militants in the Sahel.
Cameroon has sent thousands of soldiers to its Far North region to fight off the militants and said it launched air attacks on the movement for the first time on Sunday.
“Units of the (Boko Haram) group attacked Makari, Amchide, Limani and Achigachia in a change of
strategy which consists of distracting Cameroonian troops on different
fronts, making them more vulnerable in the face of the mobility and
unpredictability of their attacks” Tchiroma said late on Sunday.
At least 34 militants were killed after the
army laid siege to a base used by the militants in Chogori, and seven
others and one soldier were killed near the town of Waza, he said.
The Islamists briefly occupied an army camp in Achigachia after a fierce fight, but withdrew after air attacks, army spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Didier Badjeck told Reuters by phone.
All the militants had now pulled back into Nigeria, Badjeck said.
Both Tchiroma and Badjeck said it was too early to give full details of casualties.
Boko Haram has killed more than 40 soldiers
and recruited hundreds of youths during raids in Cameroon’s Far North
region this year.
- See more at: http://nigerianpilot.com/cameroon-foils-boko-haram-attacks-kills-41-militants/#sthash.FiJOFs1G.dpuf
Cameroon’s army killed at least 41 Islamist militants as it fought off a wave of attacks along its border with Nigeria over the weekend in an escalation in the conflict, the government said.
The coordinated assaults on five towns and villages showed a change in tactics by Nigerian Boko Haram fighters, who have focused on hit-and-run raids on individual settlements in the past, Information Minister Issa Tchiroma added.
Boko Haram’s campaign to carve out an
Islamist caliphate has spread from its stronghold in northeast Nigeria
to neighboring Cameroon, raising fears for an already unstable region
also threatened by Islamist militants in the Sahel.
Cameroon has sent thousands of soldiers to its Far North region to fight off the militants and said it launched air attacks on the movement for the first time on Sunday.
“Units of the (Boko Haram) group attacked Makari, Amchide, Limani and Achigachia in a change of
strategy which consists of distracting Cameroonian troops on different
fronts, making them more vulnerable in the face of the mobility and
unpredictability of their attacks” Tchiroma said late on Sunday.
At least 34 militants were killed after the
army laid siege to a base used by the militants in Chogori, and seven
others and one soldier were killed near the town of Waza, he said.
The Islamists briefly occupied an army camp in Achigachia after a fierce fight, but withdrew after air attacks, army spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Didier Badjeck told Reuters by phone.
All the militants had now pulled back into Nigeria, Badjeck said.
Both Tchiroma and Badjeck said it was too early to give full details of casualties.
Boko Haram has killed more than 40 soldiers
and recruited hundreds of youths during raids in Cameroon’s Far North
region this year.
- See more at: http://nigerianpilot.com/cameroon-foils-boko-haram-attacks-kills-41-militants/#sthash.FiJOFs1G.dpuf
Cameroon’s army killed at least 41 Islamist militants as it fought off a wave of attacks along its border with Nigeria over the weekend in an escalation in the conflict, the government said.
The coordinated assaults on five towns and villages showed a change in tactics by Nigerian Boko Haram fighters, who have focused on hit-and-run raids on individual settlements in the past, Information Minister Issa Tchiroma added.
Boko Haram’s campaign to carve out an
Islamist caliphate has spread from its stronghold in northeast Nigeria
to neighboring Cameroon, raising fears for an already unstable region
also threatened by Islamist militants in the Sahel.
Cameroon has sent thousands of soldiers to its Far North region to fight off the militants and said it launched air attacks on the movement for the first time on Sunday.
“Units of the (Boko Haram) group attacked Makari, Amchide, Limani and Achigachia in a change of
strategy which consists of distracting Cameroonian troops on different
fronts, making them more vulnerable in the face of the mobility and
unpredictability of their attacks” Tchiroma said late on Sunday.
At least 34 militants were killed after the
army laid siege to a base used by the militants in Chogori, and seven
others and one soldier were killed near the town of Waza, he said.
The Islamists briefly occupied an army camp in Achigachia after a fierce fight, but withdrew after air attacks, army spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Didier Badjeck told Reuters by phone.
All the militants had now pulled back into Nigeria, Badjeck said.
Both Tchiroma and Badjeck said it was too early to give full details of casualties.
Boko Haram has killed more than 40 soldiers
and recruited hundreds of youths during raids in Cameroon’s Far North
region this year.
- See more at: http://nigerianpilot.com/cameroon-foils-boko-haram-attacks-kills-41-militants/#sthash.FiJOFs1G.dpuf
Cameroon’s army killed at least 41 Islamist militants as it fought off a wave of attacks along its border with Nigeria over the weekend in an escalation in the conflict, the government said.
The coordinated assaults on five towns and villages showed a change in tactics by Nigerian Boko Haram fighters, who have focused on hit-and-run raids on individual settlements in the past, Information Minister Issa Tchiroma added.
Boko Haram’s campaign to carve out an
Islamist caliphate has spread from its stronghold in northeast Nigeria
to neighboring Cameroon, raising fears for an already unstable region
also threatened by Islamist militants in the Sahel.
Cameroon has sent thousands of soldiers to its Far North region to fight off the militants and said it launched air attacks on the movement for the first time on Sunday.
“Units of the (Boko Haram) group attacked Makari, Amchide, Limani and Achigachia in a change of
strategy which consists of distracting Cameroonian troops on different
fronts, making them more vulnerable in the face of the mobility and
unpredictability of their attacks” Tchiroma said late on Sunday.
At least 34 militants were killed after the
army laid siege to a base used by the militants in Chogori, and seven
others and one soldier were killed near the town of Waza, he said.
The Islamists briefly occupied an army camp in Achigachia after a fierce fight, but withdrew after air attacks, army spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Didier Badjeck told Reuters by phone.
All the militants had now pulled back into Nigeria, Badjeck said.
Both Tchiroma and Badjeck said it was too early to give full details of casualties.
Boko Haram has killed more than 40 soldiers
and recruited hundreds of youths during raids in Cameroon’s Far North
region this year.
- See more at: http://nigerianpilot.com/cameroon-foils-boko-haram-attacks-kills-41-militants/#sthash.FiJOFs1G.dpuf
Cameroon’s army killed at least 41 Islamist militants as it fought off a wave of attacks along its border with Nigeria over the weekend in an escalation in the conflict, the government said.
The coordinated assaults on five towns and villages showed a change in tactics by Nigerian Boko Haram fighters, who have focused on hit-and-run raids on individual settlements in the past, Information Minister Issa Tchiroma added.
Boko Haram’s campaign to carve out an
Islamist caliphate has spread from its stronghold in northeast Nigeria
to neighboring Cameroon, raising fears for an already unstable region
also threatened by Islamist militants in the Sahel.
Cameroon has sent thousands of soldiers to its Far North region to fight off the militants and said it launched air attacks on the movement for the first time on Sunday.
“Units of the (Boko Haram) group attacked Makari, Amchide, Limani and Achigachia in a change of
strategy which consists of distracting Cameroonian troops on different
fronts, making them more vulnerable in the face of the mobility and
unpredictability of their attacks” Tchiroma said late on Sunday.
At least 34 militants were killed after the
army laid siege to a base used by the militants in Chogori, and seven
others and one soldier were killed near the town of Waza, he said.
The Islamists briefly occupied an army camp in Achigachia after a fierce fight, but withdrew after air attacks, army spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Didier Badjeck told Reuters by phone.
All the militants had now pulled back into Nigeria, Badjeck said.
Both Tchiroma and Badjeck said it was too early to give full details of casualties.
Boko Haram has killed more than 40 soldiers
and recruited hundreds of youths during raids in Cameroon’s Far North
region this year.
- See more at: http://nigerianpilot.com/cameroon-foils-boko-haram-attacks-kills-41-militants/#sthash.FiJOFs1G.dpuf
Cameroon’s army killed at least 41 Islamist militants as it fought off a wave of attacks along its border with Nigeria over the weekend in an escalation in the conflict, the government said.
The coordinated assaults on five towns and villages showed a change in tactics by Nigerian Boko Haram fighters, who have focused on hit-and-run raids on individual settlements in the past, Information Minister Issa Tchiroma added.
Boko Haram’s campaign to carve out an
Islamist caliphate has spread from its stronghold in northeast Nigeria
to neighboring Cameroon, raising fears for an already unstable region
also threatened by Islamist militants in the Sahel.
Cameroon has sent thousands of soldiers to its Far North region to fight off the militants and said it launched air attacks on the movement for the first time on Sunday.
“Units of the (Boko Haram) group attacked Makari, Amchide, Limani and Achigachia in a change of
strategy which consists of distracting Cameroonian troops on different
fronts, making them more vulnerable in the face of the mobility and
unpredictability of their attacks” Tchiroma said late on Sunday.
At least 34 militants were killed after the
army laid siege to a base used by the militants in Chogori, and seven
others and one soldier were killed near the town of Waza, he said.
The Islamists briefly occupied an army camp in Achigachia after a fierce fight, but withdrew after air attacks, army spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Didier Badjeck told Reuters by phone.
All the militants had now pulled back into Nigeria, Badjeck said.
Both Tchiroma and Badjeck said it was too early to give full details of casualties.
Boko Haram has killed more than 40 soldiers
and recruited hundreds of youths during raids in Cameroon’s Far North
region this year.
- See more at: http://nigerianpilot.com/cameroon-foils-boko-haram-attacks-kills-41-militants/#sthash.FiJOFs1G.dpuf
