This was disclosed on Monday in Yaoundé, by the country’s Information Minister, Issa Tchiroma.
According to him, the insurgents had attacked five towns and villages but were fought off by the army, Premium Times reports.
He explained that these recent coordinated assaults showed a change in tactics by Nigerian Boko Haram fighters, who have focused on hit-and-run raids on individual settlements in the past.
He said: “Boko Haram’s campaign to carve out an Islamist caliphate has spread from its stronghold in Northeast Nigeria to neighbouring Cameroon.
“Raising fears for an already unstable region also threatened by Islamist militants in the Sahel.
“Units of the Boko Haram group attacked Makari, Amchide, Limani and Achigachia in a change of strategy which consists of distracting Cameroonian troops on different fronts, making them more vulnerable in the face of the mobility and unpredictability of their attacks.”
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