[Cameroon\Ambazonia Separatists]
Cameroon’s army has since 2017 been fighting English-speaking militias seeking to form a breakaway state called Ambazonia.
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The Ambazonia separatist insurgency is threatening the presidency of Cameroon President Paul Biya.
Gunmen in military fatigues and masks have killed 22 people in a village at the heart of a separatist insurgency in western Cameroon, shooting women and children and burning others in their homes, the United Nations said on Monday.
Cameroon’s army has since 2017 been fighting English-speaking militias seeking to form a breakaway state called Ambazonia amid the cocoa farms and forests of west Cameroon. As fighting has intensified, so have abuses by both sides, witnesses and rights groups say.
The fighting is the gravest threat to stability in the oil- and cocoa-producing country since President Paul Biya took power nearly 40 years ago.
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