YAOUNDÉ (AFP) – Cameroon troops have freed a kidnapped senator from President Paul Biya’s ruling party and several other hostages, in a raid in a breakaway region that also killed a dozen “terrorists”, the army said yesterday.
Senator Elizabeth Regine Mundi was kidnapped with her driver on April 30 in Bamenda in the Northwest Region, where anglophone separatists have mounted an armed campaign to separate from the majority French-speaking country.
Two wings of the Ambazonian Defence Forces (ADF) had claimed responsibility for the abduction, a local official said. In an army raid on a “terrorist refuge” in Ashong late on Monday “several hostages were freed, including the senator”, the army said in a statement.
