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Freed Cameroon Captives Says Separatists Chopped Off Their Ears and Fingers People visiting freed hostages in Bamenda, Apr. 19, 2021. (Moki Edwin Kindzeka/VOA) Freed Cameroon Captives Says Separatists Chopped Off Their Ears and Fingers April 20, 2021 | Cameroon’s military has freed nine civilians who say they were held hostage by anglophone separatists for close to two months. Some of the freed hostages say the rebels tortured them, chopping off their ears and fingers. Dozens of people on Monday visited the military camp in the English-speaking town of Bamenda. The visitors said they want...

Cameroon Military Accused of Killing Civilians in New Attacks on Separatists Home/English/Cameroon Military Accused of Killing Civilians in New Attacks on Separatists General Valere Nka, commander of the Cameroonian troops fighting separatists in the English-speaking North-West region, Dec. 12, 2020. (Moki Edwin Kindzeka/VOA) Cameroon Military Accused of Killing Civilians in New Attacks on Separatists March 7, 2021 April 3, 2021 YAOUNDÉ VOA | Cameroonians are complaining of increasing human rights abuses as the central African state intensifies raids on English-speaking rebel camps. The mi...

Cameroon Sees Resurgence of Leprosy 20 Years After ‘Eradication’ February 2, 2021 Share | Cameroon is seeing a resurgence of leprosy, the bacterial?infectious disease that causes severe, disfiguring skin sores and nerve damage.? Cameroon health authorities, on Sunday’s World Leprosy Day, said infections have jumped by about 50% since 2018.? Leprosy patients say, just as in ancient times, they are shunned and neglected. Cameroon two decades ago announced that it had eliminated leprosy, but around 200 cases continued to be reported each year. In 2019, cases of the bacterial disease, w...