The women were released by their captors on the evening of May 23 after three days of detention, said Dennis Omgba, director of the Communications Ministry’s Media Observatory.
Nearly 30 women abducted on May 20 by rebels in western Cameroon, a region wracked by a bloody conflict between Anglophone separatists and law enforcement, have been released, a government official said today.
The women were released by their captors on the evening of May 23 after three days of detention, said Dennis Omgba, director of the Communications Ministry’s Media Observatory.
These “elderly” women had been abducted on May 20 “by armed terrorists” in the village of Kenjom Keku, in the northwestern region, after participating in a demonstration the previous day protesting the taxes demanded every month for every man and woman by separatists rebels, the local prefecture had assured at the time.
Authorities still use the word “terrorists” to refer to armed rebels fighting for independence in the northwest and southwest regions, which are populated mainly by the Anglophone minority of the predominantly French-speaking central African country.
Source :Skai
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