The UN human rights office is calling for an independent, impartial and thorough investigation into the massacre of 23 people, mostly women and children, during a military operation in a village in Cameroon’s Northwest Anglophone region on February 14. UN human rights monitors on the ground report 15 children, nine under the age of five were killed. In the aftermath of the Feb.14 massacre, the Cameroonian government has announced it would launch an investigation into the killings. Meanwhile, the United Nations reports 2.3 million people in Cameroon urgently need food, shelter, non-food items, and protection because of the crisis in the Northwest and Southwest. UN aid agencies are urgently appealing for $317 million so they can carry out their life-saving mission this year.

Source: The North Africa Journal February 19, 2020 14:03 UTC