Cameroon Kidnapping

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  Captain, 7 Crew Members Kidnapped From Greek Oil Tanker In Cameroon Port

  Armed men attacked a Greek oil tanker near Cameroon's economic capital Douala on Tuesday and abducted eight men including the vessel's Greek captain, the merchant marine ministry said.

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  Pirates Kidnap Eight Crew Members In Raid On German Ship

  Pirates have kidnapped eight crew members of a German-owned ship in a raid on the vessel off the coast of Cameroon, the Hamburg-based company that owns the ship said on Friday.

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  79 Cameroon School Students, Kidnapped Earlier, Freed: Minister

  Seventy-nine school pupils abducted by gunmen this week in a troubled English-speaking region of Cameroon have been freed, the country's communications minister told news agency AFP Wednesday.

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  79 Cameroon School Students, Kidnapped Earlier, Freed: Minister

  All 79 children and a driver kidnapped in west Cameroon were free on Wednesday, but a principal and one teacher are still being held by the armed men that took them, a priest conducting negotiations said.

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  Over 80 People, Mostly Schoolchildren, Kidnapped In Cameroon: Reports

  More than 80 people, mostly children, were kidnapped from a school in the city of Bamenda in western Cameroon early on Monday, government and military sources said.

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  Boko Haram Abducts 135, Kills 8 in Cameroon Raid

  Boko Haram militants kidnapped 135 people and killed at least eight others in a raid in northern Cameroon, as the Islamists continued to strike beyond their strongholds in neighbouring Nigeria, police and local sources said on Wednesday.

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  Suspected Boko Haram Militants Kill 8, Kidnap 100 in Cameroon

  At least eight people were killed and about 100 others were kidnapped by suspected Boko Haram militants in an overnight raid on a village near Cameroon's northern border, a local government and a military source said.

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  Boko Haram Kidnaps 20 People in Cameroon, Executes 12

  Suspected members of Boko Haram kidnapped 20 people from a bus in northern Cameroon, then executed 12 of them, a security source and resident said Monday.

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  Cameroon Frees 24 Hostages After Suspected Boko Haram Kidnapping

  Cameroon's army has freed 24 of some 80 hostages kidnapped during a cross-border attack by suspected Boko Haram Islamist fighters based in neighbouring Nigeria, a defence ministry spokesman said on Monday.

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  Suspected Boko Haram Fighters Kidnap Around 80 in Cameroon

  Suspected Boko Haram Islamist fighters from Nigeria kidnapped around 80 people, many of them children, and killed three others on Sunday in a cross-border attack on villages in northern Cameroon, army and government officials said.

• Chad Says Nigeria Deal With Boko Haram to Free Girls is Still on

  Chad said it believed Nigeria's secret deal with Boko Haram Islamists to free over 200 kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls would go ahead despite the breakdown of a truce, and revealed the key to the agreement was a prisoner swap.

• Nigeria Claims Deal With Boko Haram on Ceasefire, Kidnapped Girls

  Nigeria on Friday claimed to have reached a deal with Boko Haram militants on a ceasefire and the release of more than 200 kidnapped schoolgirls but doubts immediately surrounded the purported breakthrough.

• Boko Haram Kidnaps 100 People, Most of Them Freed

  Nigerian authorities say the Boko Haram militant group kidnapped 100 people, and most were freed by security forces from neighboring Cameroon.

• Boko Haram Kidnaps Wife of Cameroon's Vice PM, Kills At Least Three

  Nigerian Boko Haram militants kidnapped the wife of Cameroon's vice prime minister and killed at least three people on Sunday in a cross-border attack involving more than 200 assailants in the northern town of Kolofata, Cameroon officials said.

• Two Months in Captivity for Nigerian Schoolgirls

  Here is a snapshot of developments since the kidnapping in northeastern Nigeria two months ago of more than 200 schoolgirls by the Islamist group Boko Haram.