A distressing image is circulating on social media. The bodies of four young people have been dumped into the Ndzengwev stream in Kumbo – a flashpoint of separatist violence in Cameroon’s North West region.
“The military raided Kumbo on April 8 and killed the four suspected fighters. They then transported the corpses in a military truck and dumped them in the stream,” a local resident who asked for anonymity told Crux.
Such attacks are recurrent in Cameroon’s English-speaking North West and South West regions, where separatists since 2016 have been engaging government forces in open combat to create a breakaway state to be called Ambazonia.
Despite such attacks, the Archbishop of Bamenda, Andrew Nkea Fuanya, said he believes calm is gradually returning to the two regions. Bamenda is the capital of the North West region, which is one of the epicenters of the violence.
The President of the National Episcopal Conference told Crux, “the situation in the North West is relatively calm.”
He attributed the relative calm to the administration of the region which he said is working to unite people and return them to normal life.
“People have gone back to their jobs, schools have reopened and businesses are going on,” the archbishop said.
Source: Cruxnow
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