This photo taken on June 17, 2014 in Dabanga, northern Cameroon, shows a soldier standing guard by a machine gun, part of a convoy of Cameroon’s army soldiers as part of a reinforcement of its military forces against Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram. Boko Haram, which in April 2014 kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls in northeast Nigeria to international condemnation, has been waging a brutal, five-year insurgency that has claimed thousands of lives. AFP PHOTO / REINNIER KAZE (Photo credit should read Reinnier KAZE/AFP/Getty Images)
Cameroonian soldiers drove militant Boko Haram insurgents back across the country’s northern border into Nigeria on Friday, a day after they killed at least eight people in an attack in the remote region that aid groups say is becoming a war zone.
Boko Haram fighters had stormed the village of Kerawa in Cameroon’s Far North Zone on Thursday, the local prefect said, the same day as a similar raid nearby and a suicide bombing in neighboring Chad. Lt. Col. Didier Badjeck, the army’s spokesman, said the military had caused heavy casualties in militant ranks, but no official death toll was available.
