The 20 players of the University of Buea football club, including some from the General Hospital Buea, who were kidnapped on Wednesday by separatist fighters, have been reunited with their families, 24 hours after they were abducted in the troubled Anglophone region in Cameroon. The incident occurred at the main football stadium of the University of Buea popularly known as “Wembley”. The various armed groupings of Cameroon separatist movement have come under repeated fire for their inhumane activities. “Separatist fighters need to stop using school children as shield and bargaining chips. Earlier this month, the US Department of State in its Human Rights report on Cameroon condemn the excesses of separatist fighters who have joined pro-government forces to rain havoc on the local population.

Source: The North Africa Journal March 21, 2019 22:23 UTC