Cameroon: Separatist Fighters Occupy 50 Schools
Published on: Monday 22 July 2019
Cameroon says armed separatists are occupying more than 50 schools in its western English-speaking regions, using them for training and to hide from the military. The alleged occupation could complicate government plans to restart education in the regions in September.
"We have about 48 schools that have been destroyed in our system and another 53 schools that are occupied presently," Cameroon’s basic education chief for the northwest region, Wilfred Wambeng Ndong, told reporters Sunday. "As regards our teachers, we are doubting the whereabouts of more than 3,000 teachers for the schools that
