YAOUNDE (Reuters) - Armed separatists in English-speaking regions of Cameroon have killed over 80 soldiers and police since their insurgency began in September last year, the government said in a report on Wednesday that suggests the conflict is intensifying.
What began in late 2016 as a peaceful movement calling for greater representation of the mostly French-speaking country's Anglophone minority morphed into conflict after a heavy-handed government response, in which troops shot at civilians from helicopter gunships and burned villages.
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