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Oum II Joseph, Senior Divisional Officer (SDO) for Manyu Division has taken measures aimed at blocking armed separatist fighters from carrying out public demonstrations on Friday, October 1.
In a radio announcement, the Senior Divisional Officer for Manyu Division revealed that separatists are threatening to disturb public order on October I, 2021.
In a bid to foil the plans of separatist militia active in the area, Oum II Joseph informed the population of restrictions to nightlife among other measures until October 4, 2021.
The circulation of motorbikes, private and inter-urban transport vehicles is proscribed from 6:00 pm to 6:00 am daily starting from Wednesday, September 29 until October 4, the SDO said.
Oum II Joseph said drinking spots and off-licenses will remain closed between 6 pm and 6 am each day from Thursday, September 30, 2021, to Saturday, October 2, 2021.
According to the senior civil administrator, all unauthorized gatherings as well as processions on the highway on October 1, 2021, are banned.
“These measures aimed at ensuring public order might be lifted on Monday, October 4, 2021, by 6 am. The measures shall be strictly respected by all, ”said the SDO.
Manyu SDO announces measures to foil separatist plans (c) Document
In November 2017, armed separatists in the town of Kembong located in the Manyu Division of the Southwest region killed at least six state forces, changing the narrative of the Anglophone crisis.
What began in the last quarter of 2016 as peaceful protests by Anglophone activists against perceived marginalization by Cameroon's Francophone-dominated elite has turned out to be a protracted armed conflict.
The secessionists declared an independent state called Ambazonia on October 1, 2017. Since then, at least 50,000 people have fled to Nigeria, including 2,300 who fled in a single day on December 4, 2017, fearing government reprisals after raids by separatist militants killed at least six soldiers and police officers.
At the end of World War One, Germany's colony of Kamerun was carved up between allied French and British victors, laying down the basis for a language split that still persists.
English speakers make up less than a fifth of the population of Cameroon, concentrated in former British territory near the Nigerian border that was joined to the French-speaking Republic of Cameroon in 1961, a year after its independence in 1960. French speakers have dominated the country's politics since.
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