Cameroon bombs Boko Haram positions with Air Strike

                                Cameroonian soldiers patrol via  Vanguard

President Paul Biya reportedly ordered  air strike for the first time against Boko Haram insurgents forcing them to flee the camp at Assighasia on Sunday, Communications Minister Issa Tchiroma Bakary said in a statement late Sunday. Good idea but hopefully no civilian life is lost.

“Fighter planes went into action for the first time since the start of the conflict” onCameroon‘s side of the border, after several months of deadly raids on troops and civilians  by Boko Haram, Bakary added.

A Boko Haram squad assaulted the Assighasia Army camp on Sunday morning and the “Cameroonian defence forces had to withdraw after trying to defend the position”, the government statement said.

The air strike marked “a new escalation in the Cameroonian response to multiple enemy attacks by the Boko Haram terrorist group”, it said


Credit:Vanguard