The Boko Haram Insurgency In Nigeria Is Spilling Into Niger And Cameroon

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTRRCN8pAj5DgAxg2iEZP7l06cvteYWetyo9lmHxDnXbSO0zVyL1A" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTRRCN8pAj5DgAxg2iEZP7l06cvteYWetyo9lmHxDnXbSO0zVyL1A" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Nigeria’s Boko Haram Insurgency Spills Into Neighboring Countries -- Wall Street Journal</span></b></div><br /><i>Military Pursues Militants Into Niger, Cameroon</i><br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br /><b><a href="http://stream.wsj.com/story/latest-headlines/SS-2-63399/SS-2-457050/">Read more</a></b> ....<br /><br /><b>My Comment:</b> One cannot help but feel that Boko Haram is actually winning this conflict .... a sentiment that even senior Nigerian officials are now<b><a href="http://warnewsupdates.blogspot.ca/2014/02/why-nigeria-cannot-defeat-islamist.html"> starting to believe</a></b>.<br /><br /><b>Update:</b> The death toll from Saturday's massacre of Christians by Boko Haram militants has<b><a href="http://www.punchng.com/news/borno-massacre-death-toll-now-146/"> climbed to 146</a></b>.

The Boko Haram Insurgency In Nigeria Is Spilling Into Niger And Cameroon

Nigeria’s Boko Haram Insurgency Spills Into Neighboring Countries -- Wall Street Journal Military Pursues Militants Into Niger, Cameroon The...

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