English-speaking Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/english-speaking/ The low down on African affairs Sun, 16 Feb 2020 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 English-speaking Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/english-speaking/ 32 32 Children makeup more than half the victims of village attack in Cameroon https://jjcornish.com/2020/02/children-makeup-more-than-half-the-victims-of-village-attack-in-cameroon/ Sun, 16 Feb 2020 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2020/02/children-makeup-more-than-half-the-victims-of-village-attack-in-cameroon/ At least 22 people – more than half of them children – have died in an attack on a village in northwest Cameroon. No-one has claimed responsibility, but opponents of President Paul Biya are blaming the army. ends intro  James Nunan of  the United Nations Humanitarian Coordination Agency says a pregnant woman and 14 children, […]

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]]> At least 22 people – more than half of them children – have died in an attack on a village in northwest Cameroon.

No-one has claimed responsibility, but opponents of President Paul Biya are blaming the army.

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James Nunan of  the United Nations Humanitarian Coordination Agency says a pregnant woman and 14 children, nine of them under five years old, are among those killed.

President Paul  Biya has been battling English-speaking separatists in the northwest and southwest of Cameroon.

Three years of fighting have left more than 3000 dead and displaced 70 000. 

His security forces are accused of atrocities and human rights violations.

This has

 led Washington to axe Cameroon from the list of African countries on a special favoured trading  status programme.

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