15, November 2021
Southern Cameroons Crisis: 8 Cameroonian security members, 1 civilian killed in Santa 0
Gunmen killed at least eight Cameroonian security members after they ambushed a convoy in Cameroon’s English-speaking region of Northwest on Saturday, according to security and local sources.
A senior police officer told Xinhua that the gunmen ambushed and attacked the convoy that was transporting security forces to their duty posts around 7:30 a.m. local time on Saturday in Santa, a locality in the region.
“Five police officers, three gendarmes and a civilian were killed in the attack making it nine people killed. Another police officer was seriously injured, and he is receiving treatment in a hospital,” the officer who asked not to be named told Xinhua by phone, adding that attackers used a rocket launcher.
Security forces have blocked the highway leading to the locality and are in pursuit of the gunmen, whom the army suspect are separatist fighters who are known to be operating in the area.
It is one of the bloodiest attacks in the troubled region this year, officials said.
Separatists have been clashing with government forces in Cameroon’s Anglophone regions of Northwest and Southwest in a bid to create an independent nation they called “Ambazonia.”
Source: Xinhua News Agency
15, November 2021
Southern Cameroons: IG voices concern over health of detainees in French Cameroun jails 0
The Ambazonia Interim Government, (IG) has voiced concern over the fate of Southern Cameroons detainees in French Cameroun jails including New Bell and Kondengui as seriously ill prisoners are being denied essential and adequate medical treatment.
In a statement today, Vice President Dabney Yerima reaffirmed the Ambazonia Interim Government’s call for the immediate release of all Southern Cameroons detainees including President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe and his top aides in the notorious Kondengui and New Bell prisons.
The statement came as pro English speaking independent newspapers in Yaoundé and Douala uncovered that many Southern Cameroons detainees lack proper medical treatment.
Vice President Dabney Yerima also urged international rights groups to visit the notorious New Bell and Kondengui prisons and inspect the conditions of detention for the forgotten Southern Cameroons detainees.
Since the Southern Cameroons crisis hit the global stage some five years ago, some 10,000 Cameroonians have been killed, with army soldiers accounting for close to 35% of the deaths.
Thousands of civilians and soldiers have been maimed and scarred for life in a conflict that could have been addressed through negotiations and genuine dialogue.
By Isong Asu