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Open questions after the release of about 80 students kidnapped since Monday in Cameroon. It is still unclear whether a ransom has been paid or not. It is known that the director and at least one teacher are still being held at Presbyterian High School in Nkwen, a town in the northwest of the country.
English-speaking separatists denied involvement in massive kidnapping in Cameroon, an act reminiscent of the one committed in neighboring Nigeria in 2014, when the jihadist group Boko Haram abducted more than 200 girls from a boarding school in Chibok.
The release of the young students, as well as that of the main leader of the Cameroonian opposition, Maurice Kamto, and about twenty activists, It was released one day after President Paul Biya, aged 85 and 36, took the oath before the Yaoundé Parliament for a seventh term.
"Together, we will restore normality in the northwestern region, when those who participate in the fight against the capitulation of the state," said Adolphe Lele, governor of this troubled region of northwestern Cameroon.
The leaders of these secessionist groups, operating in the English-speaking regions of the north-west and south-west of the country, have denied in a statement their responsibility.
The so-called Anglophone crisis, which began in 2016 with peaceful protests for more equal use of English in courts and educational centers, escalated into armed groups in late 2017 after a severe crackdown on government.
Since the escalation of the conflict, hundreds of people have died and at least 7,000 students have been displaced as a result of violent attacks and clashes between armed forces and separatist militias.
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