Anglophone Prisoners Riot in Cameroon Amid Separatist Crisis
Published on: Tuesday 23 July 2019
Cameroonian security forces moved Tuesday to quell uprisings in two prisons by inmates protesting the government's crackdown on the Anglophone separatist movement and poor conditions of incarceration.
Scores of people from English-speaking regions of the central African country have been arrested over the last two years during a conflict between the mostly French-speaking government and separatist rebels seeking to form an independent state called Ambazonia.
The United Nations estimates the conflict in the English-speaking Northwest and Southwest regions has killed about 1,800 people and
News source: https://www.voanews.com/africa/anglophone-prisoners-riot-cameroon-amid-separatist-crisis
