11, September 2023
Southern Cameroons Crisis: Explosion kills 1 in Limbe 0
At least one person has died after an improvised explosive device exploded in Cameroon’s war-torn English-speaking region of Southwest, local and security sources said on Saturday.
The incident occurred late Friday in the seaside tourist town of Limbe in the region.
“The explosion was dropped at a junction not far from a popular bar where many people were drinking. It killed one person, and several others were injured. The injured are in the hospital,” a military official in the region who arrived at the scene after the incident told Xinhua by phone but asked not to be named.
Local officials blamed separatist fighters known to be operating in the region for the blast.
There has been renewed violence in the country’s two Anglophone regions of Northwest and Southwest since Monday after separatists declared a two-week lockdown to disrupt school resumption.
Separatist fighters have been clashing with government forces since 2017 in a bid to create an independent nation in the regions.
Source: Xinhuanet
11, September 2023
Cameroonian Troops Dislodge Pro-Biafra Militants From Bakassi 0
According to eyewitnesses, Cameroon’s Rapid d’intervention Battalions (BIR) also recaptured Abana from the pro Biafra militants.
Members of a pro Biafra separatist group, Black Marine, from Abana town, former capital of Bakassi Peninsula, have been dislodged by Cameroonian troops.
This incident was said to have occurred on Sunday morning.
According to eyewitnesses, Cameroon’s Rapid d’intervention Battalions (BIR) also recaptured Abana from the pro Biafra militants.
It was gathered that authorities in Cameroon had deployed more troops to Isangele subdivision. The troops have reportedly surrounded the town, including the residential quarters of oil companies.
The rebel group was reported to have engaged the troops in a gunfire in Abana sometime ago.
One Henry Edet, identified as an operational coordinator of Biafra National League, BNL, was quoted to have urged the Black Marine to retreat in Abana. Black Marine is said to be an arm of BNL.
Few days ago, the BIR troops launched airstrikes at Ine Mba forest in Idabato subdivision of Bakassi Peninsula, targeting Black Marine militants.
It was learnt that the militant group clashed with troops of the Joint Border Forces of Nigeria and Cameroon in the Gulf of Guinea.
Eyewitnesses confirmed that about two helicopters dropped explosives in the area, destroying the militant camps. However, no life was lost in the clash, according to the eyewitnesses.
By Engelis Okesack Besong