CAMEROON
Bring Back Our Kids
Armed men kidnapped 79 children from a Northwest Cameroon boarding school Monday in an incident reminiscent of similar mass abductions in Nigeria in recent years.
The identity and motive of the kidnappers are not known, said Louis Marie Begne, spokesman for Cameroon’s Northwest government, according to CNN. However, Begne did not rule out the involvement of Anglophone separatists fighting for independence from the mostly Francophone government.
The Cameroonian army, police and military police are looking for the children, who were taken from the Presbyterian Secondary School in Bamenda.
The separatists have been accused of smaller kidnappings in the north and southwest, and in September, seven students and a head teacher were kidnapped by armed separatists from their school in the northwestern town of Bafut, according to Amnesty International.
The long-simmering conflict between English- and French-speakers flared into violence last year, after clashes between protesters and government forces that left at least 10 people dead.
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