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Cameroon’s anglophone regions have been hit by a wave of unrest<\/i>STRINGER (AFP\/File)<\/b><\/p>\n
Cameroon’s anglophone regions have been hit by a wave of unrest<\/i>
STRINGER (AFP\/File)<\/b><\/p>\n
Separatist fighters kill 3 soldiers & wounded 4 others in overnight attack<\/p>\n
Separatist fighters in Cameroon killed three soldiers and wounded four others during an attack overnight in the English-speaking Southwest region, two military sources and a separatist commander said on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The attack in the town of Kembong came hours after President Paul Biya said in a televised address that the situation in Anglophone Cameroon was stable, despite ongoing widespread fighting.<\/p>\n
Separatists have killed 25 soldiers and policemen in a series of raids over the past year in a bid to gain independence for the Anglophone Southwest and Northwest regions.<\/p>\n
\u201cADF forces carried out the attacks,\u201d said Cho Ayaba, the leader of the Ambazonian Defence Force, an armed separatist group.<\/p>\n
The crisis began in 2016 when the government cracked down on English-speaking lawyers and teachers who protested against working in French.<\/p>\n
Civilians were killed, and subsequent violence against protesters has helped boost support for a separatist movement, including armed groups looking to form a new state called Ambazonia, in a campaign to split Cameroon\u2019s English-speaking minority from Yaounde.<\/p>\n
An army crackdown on the insurgency has forced more than 40,000 people to flee to neighbouring Nigeria, according to the United Nations.<\/p>\n
Residents in the Anglophone regions told Reuters last week that the army burned houses in the village of Bole and shot residents on Feb. 2.<\/p>\n
An army spokesman said claims that houses were burned and people shot in Bole were \u201ctotally false\u201d, and he denied that soldiers were mistreating residents in other villages.<\/p>\n
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