Nigeria’s Boko Haram Insurgency Spills Into Neighboring Countries -- Wall Street Journal
Military Pursues Militants Into Niger, Cameroon
The mud huts of Issa Abba's village in Cameroon collapsed as Nigerian warplanes flew into the neighboring country one night last month and began bombing encampments nearby.
Nigeria’s military said the air and ground raid—conducted under the terms of a bilateral treaty with Cameroon—killed 60 Islamic insurgents. But Cameroonian officials dispute the claim.
Gov. Augustine Awa Fonka of Cameroon’s Far-North region said Nigerian ground troops didn’t kill any insurgents during an hourslong shootout, just a village woman who was a bystander. Seidou Boubakary, a 12-year-old boy in Mr. Abba’s village of Limani, said that sometime during the fighting, he caught a bullet to the cheek.
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My Comment: One cannot help but feel that Boko Haram is actually winning this conflict .... a sentiment that even senior Nigerian officials are now starting to believe.
Update: The death toll from Saturday's massacre of Christians by Boko Haram militants has climbed to 146.
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