Whereas violence is frequent within the two Anglophone areas, the separatists not often wage assaults past them.
5 Cameroon army police have been killed in an assault on Tuesday evening within the western area of Cameroon, bordering a province the place separatists are preventing for a breakaway state, the regional governor stated on Wednesday.
The assault came about in Njitapon within the district of Kouoptamo, within the West French-speaking area bordering the 2 Anglophone areas the place rebels have been preventing in opposition to the French-speaking majority state since 2016.
The governor of the West area, Augustine Fonka Awa, confirmed the assault with out giving additional particulars.
Whereas violence is frequent within the two Anglophone areas, the separatists not often wage assaults past them.
The battle stems from the perceived marginalisation of Cameroon’s Anglophone group by the French-speaking majority.
The preventing has killed greater than 3,000 individuals and displaced practically 1,000,000, with atrocities reportedly dedicated by either side.
On Tuesday, the federal government made a uncommon admission that 4 troopers killed 9 villagers together with an 18-month-old lady, in a “manifestly disproportionate” and “hasty” response to a confrontation in northwest Cameroon.
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