US EditionCommunity leader says armed men kill 15 people in northwestern Cameroon
The attack targeted Mbororo herders amid ongoing anglophone separatist conflict that has killed over 6,000 and displaced 600,000, according to International Crisis Group.
- On Wednesday, armed men killed at least 15 people, including eight children, in an early-morning attack in Gidado, in the remote Ndu area of northwestern Cameroon.
- The separatist rebellion that began in 2017 seeks an independent English-speaking state, rooted in colonial-era division and claims that English-speaking regions have been politically and economically marginalized.
- Witnesses say the attackers targeted Mbororo herders, whom separatists have long accused of aiding the military, and separatists claimed a September roadside bombing that killed seven soldiers.
- Officials say peace talks with international mediators have stalled, with both sides accusing each other of bad faith, while Adolphe Lele Lafrique, governor of the North West Region, called the assault a “massacre” by “terrorists.”
- The conflict has killed more than 6,000 people and displaced over 600,000 others, according to the International Crisis Group, and though deadly separatist attacks have decreased in recent years, the war remains unresolved.
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This killing, which took place in Guidado, is part of a period of renewed violence in the English-speaking region for several months.
The village of Gidado, in the north-western region of Cameroon, was the scene of an attack of unheard-of brutality early Wednesday, January 14, 2026. Armed men targeted the people of Mbororo community, killing at least fourteen civilians, including six women and seven children, some of whom were only two years old. The governor of the region, Adolphe Lele Lafrique, described the attack as a "murder" perpetrated by separatist "terrorists". The sc…
Southern Cameroons Crisis: 12 civilians killed, 15 wounded in Ndu
At least 12 civilians, including women and children, were killed early Wednesday when suspected separatist fighters raided a community in Cameroon’s restive Northwest Region, local authorities said. Fifteen people were also wounded, two critically, in the attack that occurred at around 5:30 a.m. local time in Mbandfung, a village in the English-speaking region’ Ndu subdivision, Abdou Kanfon Borno, mayor of Ndu Council, told Xinhua by phone. “The…
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