YAOUNDE (Reuters) - Cameroonian security forces moved into the capital's central prison overnight to put down an uprising by inmates protesting at the government's crackdown on the Anglophone separatist movement and poor conditions inside, inmates' videos showed.
Scores of people from Cameroon's English-speaking regions have been arrested over the last two years during the conflict between the Francophone-dominated government and separatist rebels seeking to form an independent state called Ambazonia.
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