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The deputy mayor of Bamenda, the capital of Cameroon’s English-speaking North-West region, has been kidnapped and killed by armed men, according to reports.
“The elected representative was abducted from her home at 5:30 pm on October 26, and her lifeless body was discovered bathed in blood in the morning,” reports said.
It was in this same town that an English-language journalist, Atia Tilarious Azonhwi, had been kidnapped on Friday, October 25, with no trace of him having been found since, the French media outlet points out, recalling that the town has regularly been the scene of kidnappings and murders since the outbreak of the Anglophone crisis in 2016.
Separatist attacks targeting civilians are commonplace in this and the South-West region, mainly populated by the Anglophone minority, the same source points out.
The conflict erupted in late 2016 in the wake of the bloody repression of peaceful protests by Anglophones in both regions who felt marginalized by central government.
At least 6,000 civilians have been killed by government forces and separatist fighters since the start of the conflict, according to the NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW).
