Teacher killed in strife-hit region of Cameroon – Punch Newspapers

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Sophie Mandengue Maloba, a 42-year-old mother of three, died in the town of Muyuka when three armed men riding motorcycles fired gunshots as they sped through the town, the radio said.

“She died in hospital where she was taken after the attack,” a journalist at the station told AFP.

The violence came three days after another teacher was killed in similar circumstances in nearly Kumba, some 350 kilometres (90 miles) west of the capital.

English speaking regions in Cameroon’s northwest and southwest are mired in an insurgency which began in 2016, when activists in the anglophone minority, comprising about a fifth of the population, stepped up a campaign for greater autonomy.

President Paul Biya rejected their demands, prompting radicals to make a full-blown declaration of independence last October.

Since then, separatists have killed 31 members of the security forces, according…



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