DOUALA (Reuters) - Distant machine gun fire interrupted a speech by Cameroonian Prime Minister Dion Ngute on Tuesday during a visit to the capital of the restive North West region that Anglophone separatists had vowed to disrupt. A video on social media shows Ngute trailing off mid-speech as the crowd turns and exclaims at a burst of far-off shots. There was no immediate comment from the prime minister's office. Before the shots rang out, Ngute told a cheering crowd that he was there to help resolve the crisis. "There will be planned military operations to challenge the colonial prime minister's visit," they said on Monday.

Source: The Star October 05, 2021 19:07 UTC