After overcoming fears of postponement because of the Covid pandemic, the Africa Cup of Nations now faces its next big worry: security. Security forces in the west are on high alert after armed groups sent threatening messages to teams in Group F, gathering Tunisia, Mali, Mauritania and Gambia. That sent a very powerful message.”He added, “The government has stationed heavily armed soldiers at nearly all the crossroads in Buea and Limbe. Separatist militants are not the only spectre haunting Cameroon. The country’s Far North region, the tongue of land that touches on the troubled Lake Chad region, has in the past suffered cross-border raids by jihadists from neighbouring Nigeria.

Source: Punch January 05, 2022 05:35 UTC