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On May 19, the Cameroon Army killed a separatist commander known as "Lion Dor" and his girlfriend in Oku. [80] On May 20, multiple clashes between the Cameroon Army and separatists took place in the English-speaking regions of Cameroon during the National Day. The Cameroonian Army claimed at least 28 separatists were killed during the battles ...
Map of military situation in Ambazonia region. Following is a list of militant groups fighting for the independence of Ambazonia, commonly referred to locally as "Amba Boys", in the Anglophone Crisis. It should be recalled that there are other groups involved but their tactics remain nonviolent. Due to the obscure nature of many of the smaller ...
14 March - Cameroon bans shisha smoking, becoming the sixth African country to do so. [5] 12 April - Jeune Afrique reveals that the defence ministers of Russia and Cameroon sign a new military cooperation agreement, renewing a similar agreement signed in 2015. [6] 11 May - A small plane crashes in Cameroon with eleven people on board. It is ...
The Anglophone Crisis (French: Crise anglophone), also known as the Ambazonia War, [11] is an ongoing armed conflict in the English-speaking Northwest and Southwest regions of Cameroon, between the Cameroonian government and Ambazonian separatist groups, part of the long-standing Anglophone problem. [12]
A Human Rights Watch report after the killings found that nine civilians in Missong (a settlement in Zhoa, Fungom District ) had been killed by the military, relying on testimony from five eyewitnesses and a village elder, [1] describing it as "a reprisal operation against a community suspected of harboring separatist fighters."
By 2022, both sides regularly launched raids on the territories of one another. In July 2022, tensions flared up in the Northwest Region near the regional capital of Bamenda after Cameroonian troops killed the commander of the pro-Ambazonian Red Dragons .
His fighters were able to kill Insobu on 8 April 2022. [6] [24] This operation was received with approval by locals, as Insobu had become infamous for kidnapping and abusing civilians. [6] In June 2022, General No Pity personally led an attack at Njatapon, a border post between Ngo-Ketunjia and the Noun River, killing nine Cameroonian soldiers.
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