The North-West of Cameroon is a region that has been in mourning since 2017 due to violence between English-speaking separatist groups and government forces like its neighbour in the South-West. Several incidents have taken place over the past week. Local civil society continues to call for an end to the armed logic. Civilians, in most cases, are the first victims.
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At CameroonWednesday, June 26, an explosive device triggered by a passing vehicle killed at least two people in the village of Oshum, near Batibo, in the Batibo constituency, Momo department.
Thursday, June 27, a little before 6 p.m., it is in Bamendathe regional capital, that a well-known local businessman was directly targeted by gunmen on motorcycles who shot and killed him.
Forty deaths in less than 45 days
On Sunday, June 30, a young man died in Bambui, in the commune of Tubah, in the department of Mezam, the victim, according to several sources, of a stray bullet during an exchange of fire between government forces and English-speaking separatist fighters. And between Sunday and Monday, several sources confirm that government forces intercepted and killed two separatists whose bodies were burned. A security source states that it was residents who set fire to the body. Other sources claim that government forces burned the corpses.
The situation is generally alarming according to Fon Nsoh, coordinator of the NGO Cominsud, whose count estimates the number of deaths in less than 45 days in the English-speaking region of north-west Cameroon at around forty. According to this local civil society actor, the second quarter was more violent, more deadly for civilians than the first this year.