20 militants killed in army attack northwest of Cameroon

SANAA, March 22 (YPA) – At least 20 armed separatists were killed and many injured in a military attack recently launched by the Cameroonian army in the troubled English-speaking area of ​​Ngokitongia, northwest of the country, a senior Cameroon army official said.
According to Xinhua, Major-General Valery Lanka, commander of the Fifth Joint Military Region with a headquarters in Bamanda, the main town in the northwest, told reporters in Bamanda on Saturday: A separatist leader named “General Workman” was among the dead.

Lanka added that all the dead “terrorist separatists” attacked security centers in the locality of Galim in the western region on March 7, and killed four members of the government forces, as described.

The army announced that ten separatist camps had been dismantled and some weapons and ammunition seized during the raids, which lasted about five days, and that some of the weapons seized were presented to journalists during a press conference in Bamenda.

According to the United Nations, more than 700,000 people have been internally and externally displaced since the separatists began their fight against government forces in 2017, with the aim of establishing an independent state in the English-speaking regions of the country.