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The Cameroon Armed Forces (French: Forces armées camerounaises (FAC)) are the military of the Republic of Cameroon. The armed forces number 40,000 [ 3 ] personnel in ground, air, and naval forces. There are approximately 40,000 troops in the army across three military regions.
The Rapid Intervention Battalion (Bataillon d'Intervention Rapide, or BIR) is an elite military force [1] and an army combat unit of the Cameroonian Armed Forces. [2]The unit is supported by the United States, reports directly to the president of Cameroon, and has played a large part in the Cameroonian and regional war against Boko Haram.
Used by the Army. FN MAG Belgium: General-purpose machine gun: Standard-issue machine gun for the army. [4] M2 Browning United States Belgium: Heavy machine gun: Standard-issue heavy machine gun for all branches of the army. [5] Anti-tank weapon; BGM-71 TOW United States: Anti-tank missile: 24 launchers and 250 missiles delivered in 1990. [6 ...
Enseigne de vaisseau de 2 e classe Cameroon Air Force [8] [9] [10. Général d'armée aérienne: Général de corps aérien: ... Cameroon Army [11] Aspirant:
Good examples are the GRAs (Government Residential Areas) in Limbe and Buea, and the hilltop station buildings in Bamenda, meant for high class residential only. History of Cameroon has made it understandable that Cameroon’s experience in spatial planning began in 1966 and span up to 1976 with the introduction of the first and second Five ...
On October 1, the Cameroonian Army claimed to have killed a high-ranking soldier of the Bambalang Marine Forces. [15] On October 29, ADF commander "General Cross and Die" was killed in Bamenda. [9] On November 15, two separatists were killed during a shootout with police forces. [53]
This is a timeline of the Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon during 2017.. The Anglophone Crisis is an ongoing armed conflict in the Republic of Cameroon in Central Africa, where historically English-speaking Ambazonian separatists are seeking the independence of the former British trust territory of Southern Cameroons, which was unified with Cameroon since 1961.
Originally beginning as a low-level insurgency, the Cameroonian government established control over the major cities while the Ambazonian rebels controlled much of the countryside and a few villages by 2020. [2] By 2022, both sides regularly launched raids on the territories of one another.