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Africa Subsaharan
30 hostages taken by Boko Haram in Cameroon are released
2015-01-20
[Ynet] About 30 hostages kidnapped in Cameroon
...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there...
over the weekend by members of the Nigerian bad boy group Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
have been released, Cameroon's military said Monday.

Military front man Col. Didier Badjeck said some of the more than 60 hostages taken had escaped, while others were freed after a gun fight between Boko Haram and the military. The bully boyz used some of the hostages as human shields, he said, adding that he did not know how many people were killed in the battles.
An Nahar has considerably more detail here.
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