Cameroon has ordered a curfew for 48 hours in the English-speaking parts of the country just a day before the one-year anniversary of a symbolic “independence” declaration by anglophone separatists, officials said on Sunday.
Movement of people between areas in the northwest will be banned for a period of 48 hours from Sunday, September 30 until Monday, October 1,” said Adolphe Lele Lafrique, governor of the largely English-speaking northwest region.
Similar measures will be enforced across Cameroon’s other anglophone areas, officials told AFP.
Numerous civilians and dozens of security forces are said to have been killed in the country, which is mainly a french-speaking nation. Most killings happened in the northwest and southwest which are anglophone regions.
AFP
