The secessionist crisis in Cameroon’s western region is deepening, with the government promising to crack down hard after anglophone militants shot dead four soldiers and two policemen last week.
The soldiers were killed in an ambush on a military convoy outside the town of Mamfe on 29 November in Cameroon’s anglophone South West Region. The policemen were killed the following night in the nearby town of Eyoumojock.
The secessionist Ambazonia Defense Forces, the armed wing of the Ambazonia Governing Council, claimed responsibility for the attacks.
Ambazonia is the name anglophone separatists have given to the homeland they hope to carve out of western Cameroon in this majority French-speaking country.
The shootings bring to 10 the number of security forces killed since last month.