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Separatists have kidnapped over 30 women and injured an unspecified number of others in the northern part of the country, officials have said. in Cameroon’s restive north-western region The women were abducted in Big Babanki, a village near the border with Nigeria, for allegedly protesting against a curfew and taxes …

Separatist groups in the English-speaking region of Cameroon kidnapped ruling party Senator Elizabeth Regina Mundi, local media reported. The Senator was abducted on Saturday along with her driver in the north-western town of Bamenda, local officials are quoted as saying. An official told the AFP news agency that two wings …

Three Cameroonian soldiers have been killed on Friday by separatists in the North West, one of the two English-speaking regions of the country where violence has increased in recent years. “In the early hours of Friday, an armed separatist group attacked the army post stationed at Jakiri market,” Mayor Wirngo …

A Red Cross employee is reported to have been killed in Cameroon during an attack in Bamenda, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Diomède Nzobambona, 62, was working on water and sanitation projects in the restive North-West Anglophone region. “The circumstances of his death have yet …

Human Rights Watch (HRW) says it has gathered evidence of a revenge attack nearly a year ago by Cameroonian soldiers on a village where they raped at least 20 women. The raid on Ebam in the Anglophone South-West region, an area where separatists are fighting for an independent state of …

The security forces in Angola have shot dead at least 10 separatist protesters in the north-east of the country, Amnesty International says. The killings began on Saturday in the diamond mining town of Cafunfo which is about 520km east of the capital Luanda, the rights group said. There are unconfirmed …