Mr. Tchiroma said that 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.
“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," he said.
He added that 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,"
Mr. Tchiroma said.
He said that no fewer than 34 militants were
killed after the army laid siege to a base used by
the militants in Chogori and seven others, and
one soldier was killed near the town of Waza.
Army spokesperson, Didier Badjeck, told
journalists that the Islamists briefly occupied an
army camp in Achigachia after a fierce fight, but
withdrew after air attacks.
“All the militants had now pulled back into
Nigeria," Mr. Badjeck said.
Both Messrs Tchiroma and Badjeck said it was
too early to give full details of casualties.
Boko Haram has killed numerous soldiers and
recruited hundreds of youths during raids in
Cameroon’s Far North region this year.
(Reuters/NAN)
SOURCE: PREMIUM TIMES

camerøon is tactical and stylishly killing Nigerians in the name of fighting boko haram.

Again, remove 1 from 41 and you have the actual number killed. Secondly, the camerounians don't have thousands of soldiers to send here and there. A tiny corrupt and untested army winning battles through undiluted propaganda. Wish Abach is still around. .

owobokiri:
Again, remove 1 from 41 and you have the actual number killed. Secondly, the camerounians don't have thousands of soldiers to send here and there. A tiny corrupt and untested army winning battles through undiluted propaganda. Wish Abach is still around. .

haahahahaha

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-30623199

them seize i full base
Cameroon has carried out its first air strikes against militant Islamist group Boko Haram, after it overran a military base and attacked five villages, officials have said.

The military repelled the coordinated attacks and regained control of the base, they added.

At least 41 militants and one soldier were killed, the officials said.

The Nigeria-based group is increasingly carrying out cross-border raids, threatening Cameroon's security.

The latest fighting was the most intense, lasting for three days along several fronts, reports the BBC's Jean-David Mihamle from Cameroon's capital Yaounde.
'New escalation'

About 1,000 militants attacked five villages, including Amchide, and seized the nearby Achigachia military base, where they raised their black flag, army spokesman Lt Col Didier Badjeck told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme.

He said President Paul Biya then personally ordered the air force to intervene, forcing the militants out.

"Now the area is totally secured."

Lt Col Badjeck said the air strikes showed that Boko Haram would face a "hard reaction" if it attacked Cameroon again, with the government determined to use all its capability to protect its territory.
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In a statement, Cameroon's Information Minister Issa Tchiroma Bakary said the multiple attacks showed that Boko Haram had adopted a new strategy aimed at "distracting Cameroonian troops on different fronts, making them more vulnerable in the face of the mobility and unpredictability of their attacks".

At least 34 militants were killed after the army raided one of their bases in Cameroon, while another seven were killed in a separate clash which also claimed the life of a soldier, Mr Bakary said, Reuters news agency reports.

Last week, Cameroon said it had dismantled a Boko Haram training camp on its territory, and had seized 84 children who were being trained there.

More than 40 of its soldiers have been killed in fighting with Boko Haram this year, according to Reuters.

Boko Haram launched its insurgency in north-eastern Nigeria in 2009, saying it wanted to overthrow the government and create an Islamic state.

It recruits mainly unemployed youth and has seized large swathes of territory in Borno state, raising fears that it could launch an assault on its main city, Maiduguri.

At least 2,000 civilians have been killed by the group in Nigeria this year.

The kidnapping of more than 200 schoolgirls by Boko Haram in April from the town of Chibok in Borno state sparked international outrage.
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