By AFPMore by this AuthorYAOUNDESeventy-nine pupils were kidnapped on Monday in an English-speaking region of Cameroon where separatists are fighting an armed campaign for independence, a government source said. The students were kidnapped along with their principal, a teacher and a driver, the official said, as a source at the school confirmed the kidnapping of the pupils. AUTONOMYAs radicals took ascendancy, the anglophone movement declared the creation of the "Republic of Ambazonia" in the Northwest and neighbouring Southwest Region on October 1, 2017. According to UN figures, 246,000 people in the Southwest Region have fled their homes, and 25,000 have sought shelter in neighbouring Nigeria, many of them living hand-to-mouth in the forests. Estimates of displaced people in the Northwest Region are not available.

Source: Daily Nation November 05, 2018 13:18 UTC