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Dozens killed as Cameroon troops shell Boko Haram camp inside Nigeria

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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Barely 48 hours after Cameroon army killed 27 Boko Haram militants during an attack in a locality near Fotokol in the country’s far-north, the army has again attacked the insurgents, shelling one of their camps across the border and killing “many” fighters, a security official said yesterday.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The source, who spoke to AFP, said the army had shelled the camp on Wednesday evening, two days after the jihadist group had seized control of the town of Gamboru Ngala on the border with Cameroon. “It was tanks stationed on the frontier at Fotokol (on Cameroon’s side of the border) that shelled the camp on the other side,” the source said on condition of anonymity.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Seen from Fotokol this morning, Gamboru looks empty and smells of death,” he added. “Nobody knows how many Boko Haram members were killed, but it is obvious that many were.” The shelling was confirmed by a local police officer.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“These were abandoned houses that they have occupied since they entered Gamboru. We think they still control the town, because there are many of them and they didn’t all gather in the same place,” he said.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Fotokol had returned to calm by Wednesday following days of panic as residents and Nigerian soldiers fled there to escape the Boko Haram attack on Gamboru. Boko Haram has faced minimal resistance from the military as it has stepped up attacks across northeast Nigeria, where it wants to create a hardline Islamic state.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">After clashes in Gamboru Ngala, Nigeria’s Defence Headquarters dismissed suggestions that the soldiers had fled and instead said they had been “charging through the borders in a tactical manouevre” and found themselves on Cameroonian soil.</span></div>
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Dozens killed as Cameroon troops shell Boko Haram camp inside Nigeria

Dozens killed as Cameroon troops shell Boko Haram camp inside Nigeria Barely 48 hours after Cameroon army killed 27 Boko Haram mili...

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Cameroon Declares War on Boko Haram

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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Cameroon’s army has killed 27 members of Boko Haram near a northern town, state radio said yesterday, in a sign of growing cross-border activity by the militants.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Boko Haram fighters crossed the border into Cameroon earlier this week, after attacking a military base and police station in Borno state and apparently sending some 480 Nigerian troops retreating across the frontier.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Cameroon soldiers have killed 27 Boko Haram elements during an attack in a locality near Fotokol in the far-north,” state radio CRTV said, adding that the deaths occurred on Monday and Tuesday. There was no word on any Cameroonian casualties. A Cameroonian soldier in the region said the militants had  been pushed back into Nigeria, with calm returning to the area yesterday.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In recent weeks, Boko Haram, which is seeking to carve out a de facto Islamic state in northeast Nigeria, has stepped up attacks in Cameroon, leading the central African country to increase deployments along its jungle border.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But Cameroon has not always been successful in fending off Boko Haram raids. President Paul Biya dismissed two senior army officers last month following attacks in which at least seven people were killed and the wife of the vice prime minister was kidnapped.</span></div>
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Cameroon Declares War on Boko Haram

Cameroon declares war on Boko Haram • Soldiers kill 27 insurgents in border clash Cameroon’s army has killed 27 members of Bo...

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480 Nigerian soldiers are back from Cameroon

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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><em><br /></em>The Defence Headquarters have announced the return of over 400 soldiers who reportedly fled into Cameroon after fierce fighting against the deadly Islamic militant group, Boko Haram.<br />In a statement released by the DHQ, the troops were said to have been addressed by the General Officer Commanding 3 Division, Major General Zaruwa following their return.<br />Defence sources say the soldiers are set to embark on another mission in the ongoing counter terrorism campaign.<br />There have been widespread reports that the soldiers, numbering about 480, had fled into Cameroon after facing the superior fire power of the sect at a military base in Gamboru-Ngala, Borno on Monday.<br />The sect later overran the town with little resistance from the Nigerian troops.<br />The Defence Headquarters have, however, maintained that the Nigerian troops’ foray into Cameroon was a<br /><a href="" name="more"></a>“tactical manoeuvre.”<br />Muhammed Yusuf, Boko Haram’s founding leader, was killed in controversial circumstances in 2009 and its current leader, Abubakar Shekau has vowed to carve out an Islamic caliphate in Nigeria’s North-east.</span></div>
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480 Nigerian soldiers are back from Cameroon

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Cameroon orders security agents to hide intelligence from Nigeria

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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Strong indications have emerged that Nigeria’s neighbour, Cameroon, is not cooperating with the country in the efforts to stop the Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria and its borders.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Investigations on Friday revealed that the Cameroonian government had issued a directive to all its military commanders in charge of border areas with Nigeria to keep all critical information about Boko Haram away from Nigeria.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In the directive which was obtained by our correspondent, Cameroon’s Minister of Territorial Administration and Decentralisation, Mr. Rene Emmanuel Sadi, reportedly told the commanders to withhold crucial information about the insurgents from Nigeria.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sadi, had in the letter with Decree no …G/D/MINATD, with the title, ‘Strong Message’ addressed to the Commander, Rapid Intervention Brigade, noted that Cameroon did not want the grave security situation in Nigeria to spill over to the country.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He stated also that information on Nigeria from western countries portrayed Nigeria in a negative manner.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He charged the Cameroonian forces to be vigilant along the border to prevent further spill over of Boko Haram violence into the country.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The minister said the Cameroonian Head of State, Mr. Paul Biya, had charged all the units to ensure that activities of the insurgents were not allowed to get into the country.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The letter read, “As you are aware of the security situation in the country, and the impending turmoil/danger coming from our neighbour, Nigeria, you must keep all important information regarding the Islamic sect under your control without sharing all the information with Nigerians.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“We do not want the situation from our neighbouring country to spill over to our country.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Information from our Western friends portrays Nigeria negatively.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A security source further told <em>SUNDAY PUNCH</em> on Friday that only 200 soldiers had been deployed in the areas where the Francophone country said it had deployed 1,000 soldiers to secure its own side of the border.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Further investigations revealed that the Chief of Defence Staff of Cameroun had relocated to the North of the country to keep critical intelligence away from Nigeria.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When contacted, the Director, Public Communication department, Ministry of Foreign affairs, Ahmedu Ogbole-Ode, said he was not aware of that Cameroon was not cooperating with Nigeria in the campaign against terrorism, adding that he did not know that Cameroon had ordered its security personnel not to work with the country.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said, “I am not aware of the content of the letter, in fact, I’m hearing it from you for the first time. I cannot comment on the level of cooperation between Cameroon and Nigeria unless I get the necessary information from our mission in Yaounde.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Cameroonian Mission in Nigeria could not be reached for comments on Friday as calls to the office was not responded to.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When our correspondent contacted the Director of Defence Information, Maj. Gen Chris Olukolade, he said the Nigerian military was willing to collaborate with all bodies willing to aid the fight against insurgency in the North-East.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said, “The Nigerian military is disposed to cooperate with anyone who is an ally in the fight against terrorism within the country, the sub region and anywhere.”</span></div>
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Boko Haram attacks Cameroun

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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">By Ndahi Marama with agency reports</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A local religious leader and mayor, Seini Boukar_Lamine, was also kidnapped in a separate attack on his home.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">According to Cameroon=s Information Minister, Issa Tchiroma told Reuters news agency yesterday that, “I can confirm that the home of Vice Prime Minister Amadou_Ali in Kolofata came under a savage attack from Boko Haram_militants. They unfortunately took away his wife. They also attacked the lamido’s (religious leader’s) residence and he was also kidnapped,” he said, adding that at least three people were killed in the attack.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Boko Haram fighters clashed with the Cameroonian army in cross‑border attacks twice since Friday, killing four soldiers.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Cameroon has deployed more than 1,000 soldiers along its border to help combat the Nigerian armed group.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In May, Boko Haram kidnapped 10 Chinese workers from northern Cameroon._</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A massive assault last week by Boko Haram in which the group took control of northeast Nigerian town of Damboa displaced more than 15,000 people.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Meanwhile, two persons suspected to be residents of Damboa community taking refuge amongst the over 10,000 displaced persons in Shaffa District of Hawul Local Government Area of Borno state were slaughtered weekend by gunmen suspected to be members of Boko Haram sect.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sources in Shaffa explained that the attackers who also went away with two Pickup vans belonging to residents of the area. removed the heads of the deceased and placed them on their chest before fleeing without confrontation.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Another source added that the attackers who after slaughtering their victims also warned residents including the Traditional ruler in Shaffa to desist from accommodating any Damboa refugees or risk deadly attacks.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It will be recalled that multiple attacks on Damboa Local Government Area of the state which claimed the lives of the Commanding Officer of 195 Battalion, a Divisional Police Officer, DPO five policemen and 16 soldiers as well as many civilians led to the sacking of thousands of residents who fled to different locations, while others were taking refuge in designated camps in Biu and Maiduguri metropolis.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Speaking further on the attack on two of the refugees, a top politician from Shaffa who did not want his name to be mentioned in print for security reason, told our Correspondent that “the gunmen did not touch any residents of Shaffa as they only traced their victims and killed them before firing sporadic gunshots in the air warning people especially the traditional ruler (name withheld) to stop receiving or accommodation any Damboa fleeing victim or risk attacks on his community”.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It was also gathered that the gunmen before fleeing Shaffa told residents that they (terrorists) have vowed to hunt any fleeing Damboa refugee and kill, alleging that the people of Damboa were their enemies who were against their mission.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/07/boko-haram-attacks-cameroun/#sthash.BH2wJdjN.dpuf</span></div>

Boko Haram attacks Cameroun

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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Many were feared dead during a bomb explosion after church mass service at St Charles Catholic Church No man’s land in Kano, witness said</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The police also confirming the report said five people were killed and eight injured in bomb blast.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Police spokesman Frank Mba said that the bomb was “probably an IED (improvised explosive device) thrown from across the street” at the Saint Charles Catholic church in Kano’s Sabon Gari district, which has suffered previous attacks by the Islamist group Boko Haram</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Police in Kano state this morning July 27th averted what could have been another fatal bomb blast in the ancient city. Police operatives averted the calamity after discovering a Peugeot 406 car with registration number AA 513 ZAK, loaded with explosives at the mosque of Sheikh Isyaku Rabiu at Goron Dutse. Bomb experts neutralized the explosives immediately and no casualty was recorded. The Kano state commissioner of police, Mr. Aderenle Shinaba has confirmed the reports</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The wife of Cameroon's Vice Prime Minister, Amadou Ali, was kidnapped this morning July 27th after men of the Boko Haram sect stormed her home in the northern town of Kolofata, Cameroon's information minister and government spokesman revealed.<br /><br />Mrs Ali was kidnapped alongside her domestic staff and one other person. The insurgents also killed 3 people in the attack on Kolofata, a town in Cameroon's Far North Region near Nigeria<br /><br />Colonel Felix Nji Formekong, the second commander of Cameroon's third inter-army military region (RMIA3) based in the regional headquarters of Maroua, said the sect members are believed to still be in the town fiercely engaging military officers</span><blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"The situation is very critical here now, and as I am talking to you the Boko Haram elements are still in Kolofata town in a clash with our soldiers. Some of them have already taken away the wife of Vice Prime Minister Ahmadou Ali and her house help while the bodyguards of the Vice Prime Minister have succeeded in taking him out of the town to Mora," Formekong said, adding that there could be more casualties" he said</span></blockquote>
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