hadi shwe ntja tseo nxa The Cameroonian army dealt “a severe setback” to Boko Haram during clashes in the north of the country, government spokesman Issa Tchiroma Bakary said in a statement read on state radio. Al Jazeera reports that during the battle in Fotocol on Saturday the army fired mortars at the fighters and pushed them back into Nigeria. Cameroon’s Communication Ministry said no Cameroonian soldiers were killed in the fighting. Fotocol is just over the border from Nigeria’s Borno state, the birthplace of the Boko Haram armed group and the region hardest hit by the group’s violent campaign to seize territory for an “Islamic caliphate .” Thousands of Nigerians have fled into Cameroon to escape the violence, but now the armed group is attacking towns in Cameroon, too. Boko Haram fighters were pushed back toward the Nigerian border town of Gamboru Ngala – separated only by a footbridge from Cameroon – which they seized over a week ago, Agence France- Presse reported.
Posted on: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 05:59:38 +0000
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