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CAMEROON: Growing Boko Haram Threat

CAMEROON: Growing Boko Haram Threat The Islamist movement has reportedly trained hundreds of young Cameroonians. Cameroon's army attacked the Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram, shelling one of their camps across the border and killing “many” fighters, AFP quoted a security official as saying on August 28th. The source said the army had shelled the camp on the evening of August 27th, two days after the jihadist group had seized control of the town of Gamboru Ngala on the border. “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. The shelling was confirmed by a local police officer. “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. The attack on Gamboru Ngala came after the town was almost entirely destroyed in a devastating assault in May that left more than 300 people dead and prompted outrage at the lack of military response. Fotokol had returned to calm by the 27th following days of panic as residents http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Africa Research Bulletin: Political, Social and Cultural Series Wiley

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Wiley
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© 2014 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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0001-9844
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1467-825X
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10.1111/j.1467-825X.2014.05852.x
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The Islamist movement has reportedly trained hundreds of young Cameroonians. Cameroon's army attacked the Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram, shelling one of their camps across the border and killing “many” fighters, AFP quoted a security official as saying on August 28th. The source said the army had shelled the camp on the evening of August 27th, two days after the jihadist group had seized control of the town of Gamboru Ngala on the border. “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. The shelling was confirmed by a local police officer. “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. The attack on Gamboru Ngala came after the town was almost entirely destroyed in a devastating assault in May that left more than 300 people dead and prompted outrage at the lack of military response. Fotokol had returned to calm by the 27th following days of panic as residents

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Africa Research Bulletin: Political, Social and Cultural Series – Wiley

Published: Jan 1, 2014

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