Armed conflict in NW/SW: Gov’t intensifies manhunt for alleged Anglophone activists

BY PATRICK ESUNGE As the crisis in Cameroon’s North West and South West regions, which has morphed into an armed conflict, rages on, residents in some localities in the conflict-hit regions have been caught between atrocities committed by Ambazonia separatist fighters and the government’s clampdown on suspected separatists and sympathizers. Security operatives have been indiscriminately arresting Anglophone activists and suspected activists. Sources say the arrested persons are being detained under deplorable and inhuman conditions. Some have reportedly died in detention. This has caused many of them to flee into hiding, and the whereabouts of many are not known. It is…