Cameroon Force Fights Off Boko Haram Attacks, Kills 41 Militants

The Cameroonian government said its army killed at least 41 Islamist
militants as it fought off a wave of attacks along its border with
Nigeria during the weekend in an escalation in the conflict.
Reutersreport:
The coordinated assaults on five towns and villages showed a change in
tactics by Nigerian Boko Haram fighters, who have focused on
hit-and-run raids on individual settlements in the past, Information
Minister Issa Tchiroma added.
Boko Haram's campaign to carve out an Islamist caliphate has spread
from its stronghold in northeast Nigeria to neighboring Cameroon,
raising fears for an already unstable region also threatened by
Islamist militants in the Sahel.
Cameroon has sent thousands of soldiers to its Far North region to
fight off the militants and said it launched air attacks on the
movement for the first time on Sunday.
"Units of the (Boko Haram) group attacked Makari, Amchide, Limani and
Achigachia in a change of strategy which consists of distracting
Cameroonian troops on different fronts, making them more vulnerable in
the face of the mobility and unpredictability of their attacks"
Tchiroma said late on Sunday.