article_snippet: Col. Joseph Nouma, commander of Operation ALPHA, a special military operation set up by Cameroon's government to fight the Nigerian terrorist group says communities bordering Nigeria have been emptied of men between the ages of 10 and 45.
article_snippet: Many of communities bordering Nigeria are found across the border in Nigeria, training with the terrorists," Col. Joseph Nouma, commander of Operation ALPHA, a special military operation set up by Cameroon's government to fight the Nigerian terrorist group told CNN.
article_snippet: As many as 200,000 Nigerians have fled to neighboring countries, creating an urgent humanitarian situation, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees reported last month.
article_snippet: Among Cameroonian and Chadian soldiers stationed was the son of Ahmadou Moustafa, a Fotokol resident.
article_snippet: In January, Abdoulaye Farikou, senior inspector of police in Balaza, was arrested by the military and accused of using his position as head of the Identification Unit in the Far North region town to issue Cameroonian ID cards to militants coming in from Nigeria.