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Cameroonian armed forces, launched last Friday, a special operation in the Lake Chad area to neutralize Boko Haram, sources tell Cameroon Concord.
Special forces from the Cameroonian military, from the Sector 1 of the Joint Multinational Forces (FMM) based in Mora (Far North) region, supported by the Alpha operations and Emergence 4 units grouped together last Friday to launch the military offensive against the insurgents.
The operation according to military sources is the largest, ever conducted by the Cameroonian defence forces since the outbreak of the war against Boko Haram.
The last special operation conducted by Cameroonian defence forces on May 10th and 11th of 2016, against the bases of Boko Haram in the forest of Madawaya in neigbouring Nigerian,resulted in the neutralization and the complete destruction of three camps of the sect.
One of Boko Haram's leaders, called Boukar KAOU, was captured along with five of his fellow fighters during this special operation.
Also during this operation, 58 Boko Haram terrorrists were neutralized, several weapons recovered, including three AK47 assault rifles, 02 assault rifles, 18 hunting weapons and landmines.
This new operation, we learn, has been pushed forward and supported by the Cameroonian authorities, meanwhile another operation led by the Chadian army is on the other side pushing on to drive the insurgents out of the southern boarders of Niger, where the Islamist sect recently caused numerous casualties within the military and civilians.
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The Nigerian army has said it successfully rescued more than 5,000 people that were being held by Islamists terror group Boko Haram during an operation over the weekend in the northeast region of the country.
The army said troops supported by members of a grassroots security force conducted raids in 15 villages on Sunday, during which they “killed six Boko Haram terrorists and wounded several others”.
Reuters news agency reports the army as saying, in an emailed statement, that its troops liberated over 5,000 people that were held by the militants.
Since Boko Haram’s insurgency, more than 15,000 people have been killed and 2 million others displaced in Nigeria and neighbouring Chad, Niger and Cameroon.
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Obiang’ Mangue Oficially made ASSISTANT DICTATOR of Equatorial Guinea. Lord have Mercy. The Poor Nation is now a family Affair.
Equatorial Guinea’s Dictator Teodoro Obiang’ Nguema has promoted his first son and Notorious Corrupt Teodoro ‘Teodorin’ Obiang’ Mangue as the country’s full vice-president.Teodorin has been second vice-president.The position of the second vice-president has been abolished in the new government structure, with uncertainty looming over that of prime minister.He will also be incharge of Defence and National Security ministry.Teodorin’s appointment follows the formation of a new government after his father’s April 24 election win with 93.7 per cent vote. President Nguema is Africa’s longest-serving leader and has ruled the former Spanish colony since 1979 when he ousted his uncle in a military coup.
His Son has robbed the Poor country an estimate of $20 Billion.
How Much do you think those properties cost him?? Thats a few the public knows.
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There is disbelief in Tanzania and East Africa in general as new elected President John Pombe Magufuli breaks with the past - introducing policies which a growing base of displeased elites are angrily branding as "arrogance" and a creepy Dictator. However as the First Action leader has been branded with slogans like '' what would Magufuli do?'' he is created alot of followers and lovers especially on social media who rather find his decisions relevant but hostile and quick.
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4 civilians were killed yesterday night respectively in the villages of Gouzoudoum (Kolofata) and Kaldjiwa (Mora) in the Far North region of Cameroon following two raids by Boko Haram insurgents. The terrorists looted Shops and took away motorcycles belonging to villagers.
Cameroon has recently been handing out motorbikes and bicycles to vigilante groups in these affected areas to monitor its porous northern border with Nigeria. It hopes the youths can track down suspected Boko Haram suicide bombers.
About 50 vigilantes sing and dance to local war songs as they prepare to venture into Cameroon's northern frontline with Boko Haram. They know the terrain to their finger tips and are capable of outmaneuvering the insurgents.
They wield different versions of handmade machetes, a few Kalashnikovs and anything they could use to scare off the Islamists. Since their inception, they have had some amount of success fending off an already weakened Boko Haram.
By giving the vigilantes motorbikes and bicycles, Midjiyawa Bakari, who is the Governor of Cameroon's Far North region, told DW that he hopes they can "track down unwanted visitors."
"After a long period of time spent encouraging people to contribute to the fight against Boko Haram, the inhabitants of villages bordering Nigeria have been joining these self-defense groups in large numbers," Bakari said.
"Those members that died protecting Cameroon did not lay down their lives in vain. Their country will always remember and honor them," he added.
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There is still the Senate for the revised Penal Code to pass through,North West lawyers are now staging a peaceful demonstration against the bill.The Lawyers want the bill withdrawn from the parliament.
The bill that has 370 articles, seeks to update the Penal Code that Cameroon has been using since 1967. Many of the provisions of the almost half a century Penal Code are obsolete and stand at variance with the evolution of time. They are at odds with the current socio-economic and political dispensation of the country.
According to the protesting Lawyers, it is wrong to think that Ministers should have immunity worst still the fact that any judge who tries a minister and sentences him will be sent to jail.
They express their discontent with the new law which says that says tenants who do not pay rents for two months will be thrown in jail.
The Lawyers are also saying that it is hypocritical to say that homosexuality should be fined for FCFA 20 000 if found guilty. Considering the act of homosexuality as repugnant to natural justice, the law users say everyone could be homosexual and careless if dragged to court "after all if found guilty what is 20 000frs."
Here are a few pictures we have been gathering on the protest.
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