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On January 12, 2015 a military base in Kolofata was assaulted by Boko Haram. [1] The Islamist group had attacked towns in Northern Cameroon in December 2014 [2] [3] The attack was repelled with only one Cameroonian officer killed. [4] [1] 143 Boko Haram insurgents were killed by the Cameroonian Army. [5] [6] Another attack was reported in 2017.
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.
Boko Haram, officially known as Jamā'at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da'wah wa'l-Jihād [23] (Arabic: جماعة أهل السنة للدعوة والجهاد, lit. 'Group of the People of Sunnah for Dawah and Jihad'), [24] is a self-proclaimed jihadist terrorist organization based in northeastern Nigeria and also active in Chad, Niger, northern Cameroon, and Mali. [12]
Boko Haram fighters attacked the town of Sagme in northern Cameroon in 2018, killing six soldiers and 15 jihadists. [ 2 ] [ 1 ] Throughout 2021, ISWAP attempted to establish ore influence in northern Cameroon, with several attacks on Cameroonian military posts that summer.
The December 2014 Cameroon clashes were a number of incidents that occurred between 28–29 December 2014 in variety of locations in Cameroon's Far North Region.The event included attacks on civilians and military positions carried out by Nigeria-based Boko Haram; the attacks were followed by a successful Cameroonian military counter offensive.
Nigerian courts convicted 125 Boko Haram Islamist militants and financiers of a series of terrorism-related offences in a mass trial this week, the attorney-general's office said. A Boko Haram ...
Amchide is a town in Cameroon, on the border with Nigeria.It abuts the Nigerian town of Banki, with streets and even houses straddling the border. [1] [2]In 2014, the town was the site of fighting between Boko Haram and the Cameroonian military, leading some residents to flee the area.
Boko Haram has kidnapped large numbers of children on several occasions. This has led to Boko Haram members physically, psychologically and sexually abusing them, using and selling them as sex slaves and/or brides of forced marriages with their fighters. [315] – the most famous example being the Chibok kidnapping in 2014.