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CAMEROON

Cameroon shifts military focus from Boko Haram to fighting separatists

A Cameroon special forces soldier stands guard on the Elbeid bridge in Fotokol, on 17 February 2015.
A Cameroon special forces soldier stands guard on the Elbeid bridge in Fotokol, on 17 February 2015. © Bate Felix Tabi Tabe/Reuters
Recent appointments within the Cameroonian army show the government has made the battle against English-speaking separatists its military priority. But this high-risk restructuring has depleted resources in the north, where Boko Haram jihadists are still a major threat. [...] (1069 words)
Published on 19/10/2022 at 05:00 GMT Reading time 5 minutes
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Cameroonian Chief of Defence Staff Major General Meka Rene-Claude © PIUS UTOMI EKPEI / AFP
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Two soldiers from the Rapid Intervention Battalion (BIR), an elite unit of the Cameroonian army. © STRINGER/AFP
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General Bouba Dobékréo was on the frontline of almost every conflict Cameroon has faced in recent decades, and has battled highway bandits, pirates, and radical Islamists. Now he has been dispatched to lead the fight against secessionist English-speaking rebels, and he plans to take a much less repressive approach than his predecessors.

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