A soldier was killed in an attack in Cameroon's restive English-speaking Northwest Region on Saturday, local sources said. The soldier was "ambushed" while on patrol with another service member, who was not harmed, near the town of Furu-Awa in the Menchum department, a regional source told AFP.
Violence occurs almost daily in the Northwest and Southwest Regions between government forces and English-speaking separatists, who are fighting for greater autonomy. For years, resentment built among anglophones, who make up about a fifth of Cameroon's population of 22 million, fostered by perceived marginalisation at the hands of the French-speaking majority.