Cameroon’s army has revealed that it has killed 86 Boko Haram militants while also detaining 1,000 people suspected of links to the Islamist group, Punch Newspaper reports.



Cameroon Military Kill 86 Boko Haram Members

Military spokesman Didier Badjeck revealed that five Cameroonian soldiers were killed during the clashes in the Waza region near the border with Nigeria.

Boko Haram has widened its attacks into neighbouring nations, notably Cameroon and Chad, in a conflict estimated to have claimed a total 13,000 lives since 2009.

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Representatives of 10 nations, meeting in the Cameroonian capital Yaounde on Monday under the auspices of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), urged the international community to provide more support in the fightback against the Islamists as central African leaders held talks on how to combat its bloody insurgency.

“We have to eradicate Boko Haram,” said Cameroon’s President Paul Biya, as attendees pledged to create a 76-million-euro ($86-million) fund to fight the group.

Biya declared that Boko Haram’s utter disregard for human dignity meant “a total impossibility of compromise”, but added that the fight against terrorism was not a “crusade against Islam”.

Nigeria, where elections have been postponed by six weeks until late March because of Boko Haram activity in swathes of the northeast, was absent from the talks as it is not an ECCAS member.

The aim of Monday’s discussion was to come up with “an agreed solution” on the fight against the extremists, a source close to the Cameroonian government told AFP.

Chad, Cameroon, Niger and Nigeria have formed a military alliance to combat the notoriously brutal militants, who are fighting to create a hardline Islamic state.

A Cameroonian army official meanwhile announced that more than 1,000 people suspected of being affiliated with Boko Haram were being held in the town of Maroua, in the country’s Far North region, where more than 2,000 Cameroonian soldiers have been deployed since August last year.

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“At the moment, the prison of Maroua is holding more than 1,000 Boko Haram (suspects),” Colonel Joseph Nouma, commander of a local operation is quoted as saying by the Punch Newspaper.

The detentions follows announcement by police in Niger said they had arrested more than 160 people suspected of having links to Boko Haram in the country’s Diffa region, a border area with Nigeria which was attacked by the Islamist group this month.

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HURRAY!!!!!!!!!!

Well done Brothers, more power to your elbow

Kudos to them,
but we need "pinsure" evidence and that of the 600.

Oyahhh....my naija slowdiers counter that claim......tell us u did it together