(Business in Cameroon) - In the night of 8 to 9 November 2016, Cameroonian soldiers thwarted a new attack from Nigerian Islamist sect Boko Haram, whose members were getting ready, we learned from security sources, to launch an assault on the army’s advanced post locates in Sandawadjiri.

The operation resulted in the death of over 20 rebels, as well as several other casualties, claim the same sources. After armed clashes with the Cameroonian and Nigerian soldiers, then kamikaze attacks, the members of the Boko Haram sect, relabelled Islamic State in Western Africa, seem now to have chosen to attack military installations in Nigeria and Cameroon.

As a reminder, according to official statistics, the Boko Haram crimes in Cameroon have already left over 1,000 dead. To stop the progress of these fundamentalists, the Cameroonian government has been deploying its army for several months now in the Extreme-North region, which borders Nigeria. These security spending have already cost the equivalent of 1 to 2% of the country's GDP, according to a recent estimate from the IMF.

BRM