...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there...
ian soldiers have been killed in an attack on a military post in the far north of the country, sources told AFP on Tuesday.
The five, one of whom was an officer, were killed on Monday night in the village of Sagme, close to the Nigerian border and the Lake Chad region, according to relatives and local sources. Three other soldiers were maimed.
No one has grabbed credit for the killings but the area has seen many incursions by the Nigerian jihadist group Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...in the past.
The Cameroonian army has not commented.
Cameroon, along with Chad and Niger, has joined a military effort by Nigeria to crush Boko Haram, a krazed killer movement opposed to Western influence and seeking an Islamic state based on Sharia law, but the countries have increasingly seen the conflict spread across their borders.