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14 July 2018, 13:00 Yaoundé, 14 Jul (PL) Suspected separatists from the English-speaking region of southwestern Cameroon ambushed a convoy guarding Defense Minister Joseph Beti Assomo, with a toll of casualties An unknown fired on the caravan of about thirty vehicles, including an armored vehicle that was carrying the minister and six generals, and left several wounded, including four soldiers and a journalist, a- he added.
The caravan hit a barricade half way up the road "and our vehicles were riddled with house bullets abandoned because of the war," said one of the wounded journalists, Gregoire Djarmaila. ] According to the Cameroon Tribune reporter, the attack, repulsed by the bodyguards, took place when Assomo and his convoy went to a military position seven kilometers from
The badault followed the Announcing a seventh term by the country's president, Paul Biya, confirming that he will stand in the elections of 7 October.
The Northwest and Southwest Cameroon is populated by an English-speaking minority and forms the so-called republic of Ambazonia, proclaimed a separatist entity since last October, but without regional or international recognition.
Since then, the government has declared a curfew in both renewed several times.
The informal accounts count 120 civilians and 43 soldiers dead between the two opponents since the beginning of the violence between Anglophones, who represent 20% of the population, with the central authorities mainly French-speaking.
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