28, July 2021
Boko Haram Camerounaise: 8 gov’t soldiers, 20 Boko Haram militants killed in Blangafe 0
At least 20 Boko Haram fighters were killed when the insurgents raided a Cameroon army outpost in the country’s Far North region, an official who asked to remain anonymous said on Monday .
Villagers found several bodies of the insurgents on Monday in Blangafe, an island in the region after Cameroon military repelled Boko Haram attack on its outpost in Sagme, a remote locality in the region, according to the same source.
Eight soldiers were also killed and 13 others wounded during the attack on Saturday, Cameroon army spokesman, Colonel Didier Badjeck said in a statement made public on Monday.
There has been a steady increase in attacks on the military in the region since the death of Abubakar Shekau, the former leader of Boko Haram, according to the region’s governor Midjiyawa Bakari.
“The troops remain on high alert across the Far North region and beyond the borders in order to prevent possible new assaults by the terrorist Boko Haram whose manifestations are recurrent,” Badjeck said.
Source: Xinhuanet
28, July 2021
Cameroon civil war rages unabated 0
NEW research has revealed the devastating scale of destruction caused by the ongoing conflict in Cameroon’s English-speaking regions.
Fighting between various armed groups and the Cameroonian armed forces has continued unabated in the regions for the past three years.
Civilians have borne the brunt of unlawful killings, kidnappings, and widespread destruction of houses and villages.
Government intervention has been limited, and there has been near-complete silence from the international community, according to Amnesty International.
Violence between government forces and the Anglophone armed separatist groups-who are themselves divided-erupted in 2017, when protests against alleged discrimination and marginalisation were repressed by the authorities.
Based on eyewitness testimonies and analysis of satellite images, Amnesty International documented how dozens of civilians have been killed and multiple villages destroyed since 2019.
“All parties to the conflict in Cameroon’s Anglophone regions have committed human rights violations and abuses, and civilians are caught in the middle,” said Fabien Offner, Amnesty’s Central Africa Researcher.
Offner said in one case, armed separatists shot dead two elderly women with barrage rifles.
In another, Fulani vigilantes burned hundreds of houses and killed four people.
Amnesty has decried the difficulty of obtaining accurate information about the human rights crisis unfolding in affected regions, which are hard to reach by road and have poor telecommunications networks.
“But this is no excuse to look away – without strong action by the authorities and the international community, civilians will continue to bear the brunt of the crisis,” Offner said.
The Anglophone regions of Cameroon – the South-West and North-West – make up approximately 20 percent of the country’s population of 27 million.
Violence has recently intensified in parts of the North-West.
Source: CAJ News