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CAF punish AFCON ref, fine Tunisia

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 Tunisia's football federation has been fined $50 000 and 
threatened with a ban, while a referee has been sent home and suspended 
for six months in the fallout from the team's chaotic African Cup of 
Nations quarterfinal loss to host Equatorial Guinea.<br />
The
 Confederation of African Football announced its decisions after 
disciplinary meetings on Monday and Tuesday about the on-field clashes 
involving players, coaches and officials at Saturday's game.<br />
CAF
 said Mauritian referee Rajindraparsad Seechurn had been suspended for 
"poor refereeing" after his decision to award Equatorial Guinea a 
contentious penalty in the last minute of normal time sparked the 
trouble.<br />
Tunisia players were guilty of insulting and trying to 
assault the referee after the game. CAF said the country's national 
federation president even went onto the field to confront Seechurn.<br />
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CAF punish AFCON ref, fine Tunisia

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Nigerian, Chad jets bomb Boko Haram

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 Hundreds of Boko Haram fighters are attacking Cameroonian
 troops at a border town with Nigeria, military officers said Wednesday 
as Nigerian and Chadian jets pursued an offensive that has bombed the 
Islamic extremists out of a slew of northeastern Nigerian towns.<br />
The
 attack on Fotocol, in far northern Cameroon, appears to be a response 
to the air attacks, Nigeria's first major offensive against Boko Haram, 
the Islamic extremists whose insurgency has spread across borders, 
prompting international concern.<br />
The fight in Cameroon and the air
 offensives in Nigeria come as African Union officials meet in Cameroon 
to finalize a mandate for a 7,500-strong multinational force to confront
 the extremists who in recent months have seized more than 130 towns and
 villages across three of Nigeria's northeastern states bordering 
Cameroon, Chad and Niger. Boko Haram has held many of the towns for 
months, some since August.<br />Chadian
 troops joined Cameroonian soldiers in fierce fighting Wednesday against
 the extremists at Fotocol, according to Cameroonian military officers 
who spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to 
speak to reporters.<br />
Earlier Nigerian jets started bombing Monday 
in the Sambisa Forest, where the extremists have camps and first took 
nearly 300 kidnapped schoolgirls last April, witnesses said.<br />
"At 
night we hear distant sounds of explosions," Bulama Danbayo said by 
telephone from Madagali town in Adamawa state. "We were all terrified 
but some of the soldiers stationed here told us not to be worried, that 
it was soldiers that commenced bombardment of Sambisa Forest."<br />
Chad's
 army said its troops were attacked Tuesday in Cameroon by Boko Haram. 
"Our valiant forces responded vigorously, a chase was immediately 
instituted all the way to their base at Gamboru and Ngala (in Nigeria), 
where they were completely wiped out," spokesman Col. Azem Bermendoa 
said on national television Tuesday night.<br />
More than 200 extremists were killed for the loss of nine Chadian troops, he said.<br />
Nigeria's spokesman on the insurgency, Mike Omeri, said the twin towns were recaptured but gave no credit to Chadian forces.<br />
In
 a statement Tuesday, Omeri said Nigerian forces this week have 
"liberated from Boko Haram presence" more than a dozen northeastern 
towns.<br />
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Nigerian, Chad jets bomb Boko Haram

Hundreds of Boko Haram fighters are attacking Cameroonian troops at a border town with Nigeria, military officers said Wednesday as Ni...