Over 200 students freed from Amba captivity in Kumbo

BY ATIA TILARIOUS AZOHNWI On Saturday February 15, 2019, reports said gunmen abducted about 287 students of Saint Augustine’s College Nso, on the outskirts of the town of Kumbo in Cameroon’s restive English-speaking North West Region. We are yet to independently authenticate the figures. The kidnapping, reminiscent of the 2014 abduction of 276 school girls in Chibok, Nigeria which brought Boko Haram into global consciousness, is only the latest indication of how volatile the Anglophone conflict has become since it erupted in 2016. Saturday’s kidnappings also carry particular echoes of the most infamous abductions in the history of the Anglophone…