Cameroon's Army Faces Boko Haram in Ghost Town on Nigerian Border

13 November 2014

A deathly silence hangs over the once lively trading town of Amchide in the far north of Cameroon, abandoned to the army by residents terrified of raids by the Islamists of Boko Haram.

After several attacks in the past year by the armed extremists from Nigeria, just across the western border, the vast majority of residents have fled.

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