FILE PHOTO: President Paul Biya of Cameroon addresses the 71st United Nations General Assembly in Manhattan, New York, U.S. September 22, 2016. REUTERS/Mike SegarYaoundé - 1 December 2017: Cameroon's President Paul Biya has denounced "repeated attacks by a band of terrorists" blamed for killing six members of the security forces in a secessionist campaign in anglophone regions. "I learned with emotion of the murder of four Cameroonian soldiers and two policemen in the southwest of our country," Biya said late Thursday on his return from an African Union-European Union summit in Ivory Coast. "I think that things are now clear to everyone. Cameroon is the victim of repeated attacks by a band of terrorists claiming to be part of a secessionist movement," he charged in a national radio broadcast.Mounting violence in the English-speaking west of the mainly francophone country claimed the lives of five police officers and five soldiers during the month of November, according to an official tally.Resentment over perceived discrimination and a tough crackdown on separatist political forces has provoked secessionist demands in anglophone regions, which account for about a fifth of Cameroon's population of 22 million.

Source: Egypt Today December 01, 2017 15:00 UTC