The soldiers of the Cameroonian army deployed along the border with Nigeria for several months now as part of the fight against Boko Haram, have just carried out a new victorious offensive against this Nigerian Islamist sect.

Indeed, during the night of 10 to 11 May, we officially learn, the Cameroonian army deployed itself 7 km beyond its border with Nigeria, and destroyed three Boko Haram camps in the Nigerian town of Madawaya.

Several members of the sect were arrested, including Bukar Kawu, presented as one of the commanders of Boko Haram. The operation also led to the liberation of several Cameroonian and Nigerian hostages until then held by the Islamist rebels.

This military operation, the 3rd of its type led by the Cameroonian army after the first two of February 2016, which helped inflict heavy losses to Boko Haram in the towns of Ngoshe and Kumtse; came a few days before the closing, on 14 May 2014 in Abuja, the Nigerian capital, of the 2nd regional security summit.

During this meeting, the Cameroonian Head of State, Paul Biya, commended the support of international partners and “the cooperation between the countries of the front line (which) helped to eliminate Boko Haram attacks and neutralise its offensive capacity”.

According to President Biya, this “terrorist organisation is today reduced to suicide-attacks which are more or less the weapon of choice of the weak and coward”.