21 January 2015 Last updated at 16:59 Robert Nitsch Eberhard said he had spent long hours in the dark Cameroon says its military has freed a German hostage kidnapped in Nigeria by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram. Robert Nitsch Eberhard, a teacher, was abducted in July 2014 in Nigeria’s Adamawa State by the group, Cameroon’s government said. He was freed in a “special operation of the Cameroon armed forces and security services of friendly countries”. Boko Haram has seized control of towns and villages in north-east Nigeria and launched raids into Cameroon. It is not clear which countries contributed to the operation to free Mr Robert. ‘Happy to be alive’ The former hostage arrived in Yaounde in the company of Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh, a senior official in the presidency, the BBC’s Randy Joe Sa’ah reports from Cameroon’s capital. They were received at the airport by several ministers and the German ambassador. Officials would not ...
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