The Advocate Cameroon

  Eyong Blaise Okie in Buea Four killed when police fire into air, as tensions rise in English-speaking areas over perceived discrimination International organisations are calling for an investigation in Cameroon after four people were killed during unrest in the country’s English-speaking regions. Tensions have been brewing for the past month in Cameroon’s two anglophone regions, where people say they are being treated as second-class citizens. What began as protests by lawyers against the use of French in courts quickly spread to schools and universities after teachers agreed to strike over the dominance of the French language. In Bamenda, the country’s largest anglophone city, at least four people were killed last week when security forces fired live ammunition in the air and launched teargas into a market despite no evidence that there was a protest taking place. Amnesty International described actions as “excessive and unnecessary”, and urged the Cameroonian govern...

  By Arah Tambe In Mamfe There has been a series of arrests of youths, in Mamfe, chief town of Manyu Division in the Southwest Region of Cameroon following violent clashes between the military and members of the secessionists group, Southern Cameroon National Council, the SCNC who are clamoring for the independence of Southern Cameroon. There have been reported hit and run attacks before in the interior of the Division with a lot of uncertain casualties recorded. There are also some reports of cross attacks in the main town of Mamfe injuring unarmed civilians. However, things turned sour On September 22, when Cameroonian troops opened fire against Anglophone protesters.   According to eyewitnesses, five people were shot dead and many more were injured. In Mamfe on the same day, group of young men attacked the Administrative building and pulled down the flag of the Nation and made an attempt to hoist the Southern Cameroon Flag. There was a counter attack by the mili...