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Cameroon‘s air force bombed Boko Haram bases in the far north of the country for the first time after the desperate jihadists seized a military camp, the government announced.
President Paul Biya personally ordered Sunday’s air strike, which forced the Boko Haram insurgents from neighbouring Nigeria to flee the camp at Assighasia, Communications Minister Issa Tchiroma Bakary said in a statement late Sunday.
“Fighter planes went into action for the first time since the start of the conflict” on Cameroon‘s side of the border, after several months of deadly raids on troops and civilians by Boko Haram, Bakary added.
The air strike marked “a new escalation in the Cameroonian response … to multiple enemy attacks by the Boko Haram terrorist group”, it said.
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