Cameroon bombs Boko Haram positions in Nigeria

Cameroon’s army killed at least 41 Islamist militants as it fought off a wave of attacks along its border with Nigeria over the weekend in an escalation in the conflict, the government said. The coordinated assaults on five towns and villages showed a change in tactics by Nigerian Boko Haram fighters, who have focused on hit-and-run raids on individual settlements in the past. Boko Haram’s campaign to carve out an Islamist caliphate has spread from its stronghold in northeast Nigeria to neighboring Cameroon, raising fears for an already unstable region also threatened by Islamist militants in the Sahel. A Boko Haram squad attacked the military camp on Sunday morning and the “Cameroonian defence forces had to withdraw after trying to defend the position”, the government statement said. Boko Haram has become a deadly force to be reckoned with since 2009 in northern Nigeria and have made raids into neighbouring Cameroon.

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