DOUALA (Reuters) - Kidnappers freed on Monday the last of about 80 schoolboys taken hostage last week in a raid on a school in west Cameroon, said a church minister who negotiated their release and a regional official.
Armed men seized the children, their principal and other adults in Bamenda, a centre of the country's troubled English-speaking region where separatists are fighting to form a breakaway republic called Ambazonia.
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