Cameroon expels 3,000 Nigerians over insurgency, as Boko Haram kills 7 , kidnaps 20

Cameroon officials say they have expelled more than 3,000 Nigerians as part of the fight against the Nigerian-born Islamic extremist group which has launched attacks across borders.
Midjiyawa Bakary, governor of Cameroon’s Far North region, says authorities have also arrested hundreds of Cameroonians and Nigerians accused of collaborating with Boko Haram. He said they deported Nigerians who said they were refugees but were not staying at refugee camps and did not have identification papers.
Bakary said Tuesday that women, children and men were taken to Nigeria’s Sahuda village in Mubi, along the border.
In Nigeria, many said they were forced to flee quickly over the weekend.
Adamawa State Emergency Management Agency chairman Haruna Hamman Furo said 800 people have been registered. He said 12,000 Nigerians may eventually be sent back.

Meanwhile, at least seven people were killed and about 20 others were kidnapped by suspected Boko Haram militants in an overnight raid on a village near Cameroon’s northern border, a senior military officer said on Tuesday.
Tchakarmari, the village targeted early on Tuesday, lies north of Maroua, where dozens of people were killed in a series of suicide bombings by the Nigerian Islamist group last month.
“There was an attack at 1.30 a.m. (0030 GMT). We have a figure of seven dead … We were informed that this was an attack by gunmen from Nigeria,” said the officer, who asked not to be named as he was not authorised to speak to the media.
The officer, deployed as part of a Cameroonian military operation aimed at stemming the spillover of violence from Boko Haram’s traditional strongholds in northeastern Nigeria, said that the death toll was provisional and could rise.
After the spate of suicide bombings in July, Cameroon’s government announced plans to send an additional 2,000 troops to boost security in the Far North region.
The regional governor has banned burqas since the attacks, which were carried out by veiled female bombers. And over the weekend, authorities rounded up and expelled about 2,800 Nigerians living in Cameroon without the required documents.
Cameroon has already deployed some 7,000 troops as part of a regional force which includes Chad, Niger and Nigeria to try to stop Boko Haram’s six-year insurgency.