Tag: Cameroon
Tackling Boko Haram: Nigeria has biggest military force, weakest impact
Four African armies, from Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad and Niger, are currently directly engaged in the fight against the Nigeria-based insurgent…
Cameroon, Chad, Niger real test for Boko Haram, says US
Boko Haram is flush with cash and weapons after a string of battlefield advances, but the militants could face a…
70 civilians, six troops ‘killed in Boko Haram rampage in Cameroon’
Boko Haram fighters killed nearly 70 civilians and six soldiers in an onslaught on the Cameroonian border town of Fotokol…
Boko Haram slits civilians’ throats in fresh attack
Boko Haram fighters slit civilians’ throats and torched the main mosque in the Cameroon border town of Fotokol during an…
Cameroon troops clash with fleeing Boko Haram fighters
Cameroon soldiers clashed with Boko Haram fighters in the border town of Fotokol on Wednesday as the Islamists fled an…
3 Chad soldiers, 123 Boko Haram fighters killed in Cameroon
Three soldiers and 123 Boko Haram militants were killed when the Islamist group attacked a Chadian army contingent in northern…
AFCON 2015: Ivory Coast, Cameroon In Do-Or-Die Match
Ivory Coast will hope to finally register their first victory in the 2015 CAF African Cup of Nations in Equatorial…
Hundreds flee Borno villages ‘after Boko Haram warning’
Hundreds of people from four villages near the devastated Nigerian town of Baga have been forced to flee after a…
Boko Haram kidnaps 60 in deadly Cameroon attack
*Most of the captives are women, children Boko Haram fighters from Nigeria on Sunday kidnapped at least 60 people in…
Eto’o ‘hugely missed’ by Cameroon, says Mbia
Cameroon skipper Stephane Mbia says the absence of Samuel Eto’o from this year’s Africa Cup of Nations is a blow…
Chad joins war against Boko Haram, deploys troops to Cameroon
Dozens of Chadian tanks headed out of the capital Friday south towards Cameroon to help fight Nigeria’s dreaded Boko Haram…
I feel pained when I hear Nigerians flee to Cameroon, Chad – Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan has said it pains him to hear that Nigerians flee to Cameroon, Chad as Internally Displaced Persons…
Boko Haram: Chad to send troops to support Cameroon
Cameroon’s President Paul Biya announced Thursday that neighbouring Chad will send troops to aid his country’s army fight Boko Haram…
Chad pledges support to Cameroon against Boko Haram
Chad’s government on Wednesday pledged “active support” for neighbouring Cameroon in fighting Boko Haram, after another cross-border raid this week…
143 Boko Haram fighters gunned down in Cameroon
The Cameroonian army killed 143 Boko Haram militants who attacked a town in Kolofata, north of the country on Monday,…