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Prensa Latina
March 27, 2018
The group was arrested in the city of Kolofata when they transported arms, ammunition, foodstuffs, materials to manufacture explosives and medicines to Nigeria using Cameroonian territories as a transit point, noted the spokesman. The suspects, denounced by the population, on previous occasions haveÃâà...
Voice of America
March 26, 2018
Alban Toupo, commander of the Rapid Intervention Battalion, the Cameroon military unit fighting the Boko Haram insurgency in the border town of Kolofata, said 31 people, including 25 women, were arrested while transporting ammunition, food, material to fabricate explosive devices, torches, drugs andÃâà...
The Jamestown Foundation
March 24, 2018
On February 12, Cameroonian forces shot and killed two other female suicide bombers in Kolofata “without waiting for military command.” Struck by bullets, the girls' explosives appear to have detonated, and three soldiers were wounded collaterally (Cameroon Concord, February 13). The war hasÃâà...
Crux: Covering all things Catholic
February 27, 2018
She was still hoping to return to Kolofata, the community in Cameroon to which she dedicated her life for 24 years. She also had become a target there of Boko Haram - the terrorist organization that in 2014 killed 17 of her friends and colleagues and kidnapped 17 more, just shortly after she had returned toÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
February 17, 2018
Abuja — THE Nigerian Army has denied media report that it confirmed the escape of the factional leader of Boko Haram terrorists, Abubakar Shekau to Kolofata, in the neighbouring Republic of Cameroon. An online medium, SaharaReporters had reported that a "top Boko Haram commander, AbdullahiÃâà...
Daily Trust
February 17, 2018
... Usman, Director, Army Public Relations, it added that it knows nothing of reports indicating that Abubakar Shekau is in Kolofata, Republic of Cameroon. ... Army on February 14, disclosed that the wanted factional leader of the sect, Abubakar Shekau, has escaped to Kolofata in neighbouring Cameroon.”.
Vanguard
February 17, 2018
An online medium, SaharaReporters had reported that a “top Boko Haram commander, Abdullahi Bello alias Abu Zainab, who was captured by the Nigerian Army on February 14, disclosed to the Army interrogators that the wanted factional leader of the sect, Abubakar Shekau, escaped to Kolofata inÃâà...
SaharaReporters.com
February 16, 2018
A Boko Haram commander, Abdullahi Bello (alias Abu Zainab), has told the Nigerian Army that wanted factional leader of the sect, Abubakar Shekau, has escaped to Kolofata in neighbouring Cameroun. Bello, Army sources told SaharaReporters, was arrested on February 14in Bauchi, while fleeing toÃâà...
Reliefweb
February 14, 2018
In Kolofata IDP camp which is currently hosting approximately 4,500 IDPs and expecting to host 12,000 IDPs in total, the only available water point is 1.5 km away and as a result, people resorted to using unprotected water sources. UNICEF is engaging with the government to put in place a piped waterÃâà...
Xinhua
February 3, 2018
YAOUNDE, Feb. 3 (Xinhua) -- At least two civilians were killed in an attack by the terror group Boko Haram early Saturday morning in Kolofata of Cameroon's Far North region, local sources told Xinhua. The attack took place between 01:00 am and 02:30 am local time in Yawa of Kolofata subdivision.
Xinhua
February 3, 2018
YAOUNDE, Feb. 3 (Xinhua) -- At least two civilians were killed in an attack by the terror group Boko Haram early Saturday morning in Kolofata of Cameroon's Far North region, local sources told Xinhua. The attack took place between 01:00 am and 02:30 am local time in Yawa of Kolofata subdivision.
Xinhua
January 11, 2018
YAOUNDE, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) -- At least three people were killed in an attack Wednesday night in Cameroon's Far North region, with the terror group Boko Haram suspected of being behind it, local sources told Xinhua Thursday. The attack occurred in the Kolofata subdivision in the north, bordering theÃâà...
Xinhua
December 31, 2017
31 (Xinhua) -- At least two people were killed in an attack by suspected members of terror group Boko Haram on Sunday morning in Cameroon's Far North region, local sources told Xinhua. Three suspected Boko Haram members targeted a bustling place in Bia, just 3 kilometers from Kolofata near Nigeria,Ãâà...
Aljazeera.com
August 25, 2017
Suspected Boko Haram fighters killed at least 11 people and abducted eight others in an overnight raid on a village in northern Cameroon near the Nigerian border, officials said on Friday. The attackers burned down more than 30 houses in Gakara village, just outside the town of Kolofata, which has beenÃâà...
Hindustan Times
June 21, 2017
A double suicide attack killed six civilians in Cameroon's restive Far North, which is regularly hit by Nigeria-based Boko Haram jihadists, security sources said. The deadly blasts happened on Wednesday in Kolofata, where nine people died in a double suicide bombing in early June. “There were eightÃâà...
Firstpost
June 21, 2017
The deadly blasts happened on Wednesday in Kolofata, where nine people died in a double suicide bombing in early June. "There were eight killed, six civilians ... In mid-June two civilians were killed in an attack in Limani, which is near Kolofata and the Nigerian border. Earlier in the month a soldier wasÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
June 2, 2017
Nigerian refugees have flooded across the border and local residents have been forced to flee their homes. Villages and towns in the area have regularly been targeted by suicide bombers. A similar attack in Kolofata killed nine people in September 2015. Thousands of troops have been deployed to theÃâà...
Cameroon Concord
December 31, 1999
Security forces killed BH suicide bomber, while another detonated explosives killing only himself in Kordo, near Kolofata 11 Feb. President Biya 7 Feb scheduled senatorial elections for 25 March; opposition Mouvement pour la Renaissance du Cameroun (MRC) 19 Feb decided to boycott on grounds thatÃâà...
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