A home-made device exploded overnight near a police station in Cameroon’s restless English-speaking region, where separatist leaders have launched a campaign for independence, concurring sources said Tuesday. There were no reported casualties, they said. The bomb detonated near a police unit called the Mobile Intervention Group in Bamenda, the chief city in the Northwest Region, a security official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. The information was confirmed separately to AFP by an official with the regional government, who added that another device nearby was safely defused by police.

There was no claim of responsibility by late afternoon. The blast came after a weekend of violence in which 19 people were killed in the English-speaking Northwest and Southwest regions as the authorities clamped down on a symbolic declaration of independence for “Ambazonia,” the name of the state radical anglophones wish to create. Fourteen died in clashes with security forces, and five were prisoners shot by guards in an attempted jail break at Kumbo, according to an AFP toll. Cameroon, a francophone-majority nation in central-western Africa, has a large anglophone minority, comprising about a fifth of its population of 22 million. English-speakers complain they suffer inequality and discrimination — a resentment that has fuelled a breakaway movement that culminated Sunday in a symbolic declaration of independence from the rest of Cameroon. President Paul Biya strongly opposes independence, as well as a less radical alternative for a return to a federal structure, which the country once had. Home-made bombs exploded in Bamenda on September 18 and September 22 in Douala, Cameroon’s economic hub, which is in a francophone region.

The blasts prompted the government to ratchet up its response to anglophone agitation, notably calling the separatists “terrorists”. This was followed by orders for a three-day curb on movement in the two anglophone areas, coinciding with the independence declaration. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Amnesty International have called on Cameroon to investigate the fatalities, and the European Union and France, the country’s former colonial power, have urged dialogue and non-violence. Cameroon was a German colony from 1884 until 1919, when it was split into British- and French- run entities at the end of World War I. Today’s anglophone-francophone rift dates back to 1961, when the British-administered Southern Cameroons united with Cameroon after its independence from France in 1960.

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this struggle is strong- Biafra, Catalonia, Kurd, Ambazonia and ...

an indication of the end?
think my people

This issue in Cameroon might degenerate into a civil war

They already labelled them 'terrorists'... aping their big brother Nigeria so quickly.

prospero5:
this struggle is strong- Biafra, Catalonia, Kurd, Cameroun and ...

an indication of the end? think people

Biafra issue would not have been an issue but the central government are doing everything possible to provoke them. The only thing slowing down the Biafran agitation is because there are many Igbos outside the eastern region...If not...How many people can endure the continuous humuliation and killing of unarmed agitation?

Terrorist Kanu is that you?

Mynd44:
This issue in Cameroon might degenerate into a civil war

Sadly Nigeria is tethering toward that level...

Nigeria FG / Army is overestimating their strength... tackling US, UK and EU...

insisting IPOB are terrorists is a pure indication that this people are so desperate for war.

Stingman:


Biafra issue would not have been an issue but the central government are doing everything possible to provoke them. The only thing slowing down the Biafran agitation is because there are many Igbos outside the eastern region...If not...How many people can endure the continuous humuliation and killing of unarmed agitation?

That's what I noticed... They are doing everything to provoke a civil..

Civil War they would get in full... at the right time.

Kazim88:


Sadly Nigeria is tethering toward that level...

Nigeria FG / Army is overestimating their strength... tackling US, UK and EU...

insisting IPOB are terrorists is a pure indication that this people are so desperate for war.

You can't compare Nigeria's case to what's happening in Cameroon.

freshest4live:

You can't compare Nigeria's case to what's happening in Cameroon.

Nigeria case is worse...

The hate is terrible...

North are waiting to kill southerners, looking for any slightest provocation

If it was just an Oppressive government vs IPOB...

but they is a strong tribal undertone in Nigeria case.

Dont be deceived by this silence we are witnessing... Nigeria is about to explode.

Buhari lack skill to de-escalate tension... His Independent Day speech just added fuel.

If Kanu is actually alive, he must be planning full scale war... if Every diplomatic and international legallity fails to check mate Buratai and Buhari hence the demand of Kanu whereabout from FG by UK.

He has all the time, all the international support all the logistics to attack...

Nigeria Government on the other hand, lack international support.

Kazim88:


Nigeria case is worse...

The hate is terrible...

North are waiting to kill southerners, looking for any slightest provocation

If it was just an Oppressive government vs IPOB...

but they is a strong tribal undertone in Nigeria case.

Dont be deceived by this silence we are witnessing... Nigeria is about to explode.

Buhari lack skill to de-escalate tension... His Independent Day speech just added fuel.

If Kanu is actually alive, he must be planning full scale war... if Every diplomatic and international legallity fails to check mate Buratai and Buhari hence the demand of Kanu whereabout from FG by UK.

He has all the time, all the international support all the logistics to attack...

Nigeria Government on the other hand, lack international support.

Nigeria's case is not worse my man, stop deceiving yourself. Tribal differences can be dealt with anytime and Buhari would not be in power forever like Biya.

My
Ghanaian brothers will say one corner