Villages Burn as Cameroon Troops Clash With Separatists

In Cameroon, officials say eight villages in the English-speaking northwest have been torched and hundreds of residents have fled amid clashes this week between security forces and separatist rebels. Terence Fukah, a 33-year-old pig farmer, told VOA he fled his village of Ajin on Tuesday as the military responded to an attack by armed men. "It was around five o'clock in the morning. I saw dead people lying down. I had to cross on top of them and run for my dear life,"...

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