Cameroon’s Information Minister, Issa Bakari, has said no fewer than 800 Boko Haram fighters have attacked Fotokol in the north of the country, where 90 civilians have been killed.

Bakari also said on Thursday that the extremists, which started their attack on Wednesday from Gamboru area of Nigeria, burned churches, mosques and villages and slaughtered youth, who resisted joining them to fight the Cameroonian forces.

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YAOUNDE, Cameroon — Boko Haram fighters have shot or burned to death about 90 civilians and wounded 500 in ongoing fighting in a Cameroonian border town near Nigeria, officials in Cameroon said Thursday.

Some 800 Islamic extremists attacking the town of Fotokol have ‘‘burned churches, mosques and villages and slaughtered youth who resisted joining them to fight Cameroonian forces,’’ Information Minister Issa Tchiroma Bakari said.
The insurgents from Nigeria also looted livestock and food in the fighting that began Wednesday and was continuing Thursday, Bakari told The Associated Press.

Boko Haram is using civilians as shields, making it difficult to confront them although reinforcements have arrived in Fotokol, according to military spokesman Col. Didier Badjeck.

Schools also have been razed by the insurgents, whose nickname, Boko Haram, means ‘‘Western education is forbidden’’ in the Hausa language.

Hundreds of insurgents were killed Wednesday compared to the loss of 13 Chadian and 6 Cameroonian troops, Defense Minister Edgard Alain Mebe Ngo said. At least 91 civilians have been killed and most of more than 500 wounded people cannot be immediately taken to the hospitals, he said. There was no way to immediately confirm the account independently.

The fighters are believed to have crossed into Cameroon from nearby Gamboru, a Nigerian border town that had been an extremist stronghold since November. Gamboru was retaken earlier this week and the fighters driven out by Chadian and Nigerian air strikes supported by Chadian ground troops.

African Union officials on Thursday were finalizing plans for a multinational force to fight the spreading Boko Haram uprising, although there are questions about funding. The AU last week authorized a 7,500-strong force from Nigeria and its four neighbors, Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Benin.

Senior officers from the U.N. peacekeeping department are attending the meeting in Yaounde, Cameroon’s capital, said a U.N. official.

The Africans want U.N. Security Council approval and money to fund the mission, said the official who spoke Wednesday at the United Nations and insisted on anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the press on the meeting.

France’s President Francois Hollande said Thursday his country is providing support with weapons, logistics and operations for the multinational effort. At a news conference in Paris, he stopped short of saying whether France is actually involved in military action itself. France has a big air base at N’Djamena, the capital of Chad, which will lead the multinational force.

International concern has grown as Boko Haram has increased the tempo and ferocity of its attacks just as Nigeria is preparing for presidential and legislative elections on Feb. 14.

Some 10,000 people were killed in Boko Haram violence last year compared to 2,000 in the first four years of Nigeria’s Islamic uprising, according to the Council on Foreign Relations.


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Their end is near!

This group is just bigger than we know..... they need collective efforts to eradicate


Lalasticlala, seun, ishilove, obinoscopY

Western education is haram, yet they use their weapons and upload youtubes. may the Lord punish u demons and all your sponsors

Boko Wahala

Abeg, I wan ask, boko haram members get nine lives?

boko guys your days are numbered

Life!!! Vanity upon vanity

WHICH ONE DEM COME SAY NIGERIAN AMRY DONE DEY BOOM SAMBISA FOREST . WHERE THIS BOKO BOYS COME FROM COME OUT AGAIN NOW

800 @ ones
Omo dis guys are multiplying

Politics have kept boko haram dis long.
May God help us all o

The rate at which this BH people increased in number is mind blowing

Hmm. Baba God come and help us oh

OK

ok

See what Jonathan's in-action has cost Africa!

Moral of the story, if you want to act at all act fast.

nawao..............boko haram una no dey finish. ..una cup don full.......useless animals

I hope Nigerians will now give credit to GEJ and our Army for preventing Boko Haram from overruning Nigeria from Kano down to Lokoja.

Boko Haram attacked and took territories in NE Nigeria,using immense propaganda, hoping that Nigeria would 'vex' and throw all her military might into those areas-allowing the insurgents' other cells to sneek into interior Nigeria and wreck havoc on the entire nation.

This is what Nigeria's enemies and many western nations wanted too. A scenario where Nigeria used all its oil money to buy arms while our economy suffers.

Fortunately, GEJ didn't fall into that trap and our economy continues to be the most sort after and biggest in Africa.

Chad, Cameroon and Niger, francophone nations that perhaps approved the western script of allowing Boko Haram to destroy Nigeria have now joined the fight. They've realized that Boko Haram poses more threat to their own respective economies than that of Nigeria.

relative of boko haram is Islam...

With time boko haram will be a thing of the past

They should not be given chance to escape from that end, they must all taste death this time around

GEJ will soon be asked to go and confront ISIS soon by the so called APC internet dogs

One day all this would be over,...God bless chad,cameroon and Nigerian troops,may the Lord reward ur efforts..

Hi......... Is dis first page? Pls am at ur bak.

I Neva see ooooi. all over d world Na soso insurgency.

I'm hoping all this will soon be over