Kidnappings Endemic in Cameroon’s Anglophone Regions

Expand Social Democratic Front chairman Ni John Fru Ndi speaks to his supporters during a campaign rally in Yaounde, Cameroon, Saturday, Oct. 8. 2011. © 2011 AP Photo/Sunday Alamba On June 28, armed separatists beat and kidnapped John Fru Ndi, a well-known Cameroonian politician considered by some as one of the country’s old guard of political activism, from his home in Bamenda, North-West region. The attack was only the latest in a litany of abuses implicating armed separatists in Cameroon’s Anglophone regions. Fru Ndi, chairman of the opposition party Social Democratic Front (SDF), has been…

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