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Attack on Cameroon border region
10.06.2008

A Cameroonian government official has been abducted and several policemen killed in an attack on a village in the border region of Bakassi. Unidentified gunmen killed at least three police officials in the attack, security sources told the BBC. The attack happened in the northern part of the oil-rich Bakassi peninsula, which Nigeria handed over to Cameroon in 2006. The rest of the area is due to be handed over in August ... mehr

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Abducted Cameroonians found dead
14.06.2008

Five bodies found riddled with bullets near Cameroon's border with Nigeria are victims of a recent kidnapping, officials say. Felix Morfan, the deputy governor of the Bakassi region, and six Cameroonian soldiers were kidnapped by suspected rebels from Nigeria on Monday ... mehr

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Regierung soll Anspruch auf Bakassi-Halbinsel aufgeben
Zwölf Tote bei Rebellenangriff in Kamerun
PR-inside.com 25.07.2008 14:34:05

Yaoundé (AP) Ein Rebellenangriff in Kamerun hat zwölf Menschen das Leben gekostet. Verteidigungsminister Remy Ze Meka sagte am Freitag im staatlichen Fernsehen, bei dem Angriff auf der Halbinsel Bakassi seien am Donnerstag zehn Aufständische und zwei Soldaten getötet worden. Acht der Angreifer seien festgenommen worden ... mehr
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Cameroon kills Bakassi attackers
25.07.2008 - BBC

Cameroonian soldiers have killed 10 gunmen who attacked them in the disputed oil-rich Bakassi peninsula, officials say. Nigeria is transferring the peninsula to Cameroon under a World Court order, despite opposition from locals. A little-known armed Nigerian group opposed to the handover of the territory, said only four of its men had been killed in the raid. At least one Cameroon soldier was also killed during the clashes. It was the second attack on Cameroonian positions in Bakassi within a week ... mehr




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Nigeria übergibt umstrittene Öl-Halbinsel Bakassi an Kamerun
14.08.2008 - NZZ online

Nigeria hat am Donnerstag die umkämpfte Öl- Halbinsel Bakassi an Kamerun übergeben. Damit beendeten die beiden westafrikanischen Länder einen jahrzehntelangen Grenzstreit ... mehr
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Nigeria cedes Bakassi to Cameroon
14.08.2008 - BBC

Nigeria has handed over the potentially oil-rich Bakassi peninsula to Cameroon, bringing an end to a long-standing dispute over the territory ... mehr


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Feeling like fish out of water
02.10.2009 - BBC

A year after 300,000 Nigerians had to leave the Bakassi Peninsula following its handover to Cameroon, the BBC's Sam Olukoya for African Perspective travels to one of the areas where the Nigerian government resettled the former Bakassi residents to see how they are coping ... mehr

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