Kumba hospital in north-west Cameroun, is one of the largest health centres treating around three thousand people a month but all that is left of the hospital is rubble and ashes; after armed men stormed the hospital on February 12 and set it on fire. The hospital director said the attack destroyed sections of the hospital including the Male and Female surgical wards and the Nurses’ quarter. According to Amnesty International, separatists and unknown assailants have damaged and destroyed or burnt various schools and kidnapped hundreds of children. Hundreds of people, including civilians, separatist fighters and Cameroonian security agents, have been killed in the past year’s violence, as the Anglophone separatist movement in western Cameroon fights to break away from the Francophone-dominated central government. Violence from both sides of the conflict intensified this year, forcing thousands of civilians to seek refuge in Francophone regions.

Source: The North Africa Journal February 21, 2019 21:22 UTC