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Yaoundé (AFP) – Cameroon troops killed around 100 members of Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamist group and freed 900 hostages in a three-day operation in the far north of the country, the defence ministry said Wednesday.

« A special clean-up operation from November 26 to 28 » against Boko Haram fighters in the border area with Nigeria, where troops seized Islamic State (IS) flags, « neutralised more than 100 jihadists », Defence Minister Joseph Beti Assomo said in a statement broadcast on national radio.

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