Troops have freed 900 hostages captured by the Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram, Cameroon’s defence minister has announced.

According to the BBC, Joseph Beti Assomo said his forces had also killed around 100 Boko Haram members at the end of November.

There has been no independent confirmation of the operation in Cameroon’s remote Far North region, but the statement aired on public radio today said a large stock of arms and munitions had been seized, as well as black-and-white Islamic State flags.

At least 17,000 people have been killed and 2,000 abducted since Boko Haram launched its insurgency in 2009, according to Amnesty International.

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