300 insurgents surrender in Cameroon

At least 300 insurgents of the Nigerian radical movement, Boko Haram surrendered to the Cameroonian authorities during the past three weeks, according to military sources.

Reports quoting the spokesman of the Cameroonian army, Lieutenant-Colonel Didier Badjeck indicated that the Islamists had also surrendered their weapons and requested political asylum in Cameroon.

Badjeck also indicated that for the moment, nothing had been decided about the fate of these insurgents. The announced surrender of Boko Haram militants comes at a time where the military campaign in Nigeria and Cameroon is intensifying against the rebels who fight alongside other activists from Niger and Chad.

In recent weeks, insurgents of Boko Haram had invaded towns and border villages inside Cameroon, causing a rapid reaction of the Cameroonian troops, which had then launched an all-out offensive against the sect.

They had taken control of several towns and declared an Islamic Northeastern Nigeria Caliphate until the Nigerian military neutralize them through land and air attacks.The surrender of insurgents took place near the village of Buni-yaa, some 200 km west of the town of Konduga.