No fewer than 300 Boko Haram fighters have surrendered in Nigeria’s neighbouring country Cameroon in the past three weeks, Cameroon’s defense ministry has said. According to the country’s military spokesman, Lt. Col. Didier Badjeck, the Islamist militants gave up their arms and asked for asylum in Cameroon. Badjeck added that the fates of the terrorists are yet to be decided.
The insurgents have in recent weeks
attacked border towns and villages in Cameroon. Boko Haram had seized a string of towns and declared an Islamic caliphate in
northeast Nigeria before the Nigerian military started recording victories with air and ground attacks that have resulted into 135 Boko Haram fighters also surrendered to Nigeria’s army.
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