About 79 school students have been abducted in anglophone Cameroon, government officials have confirmed on monday 5/11/2018. They were kidnapped from a school in the city of Bamenda in western Cameroon early on Monday.

No one immediately claimed responsibility for the abduction in the English-speaking region where separatists are fighting to form a breakaway state. The separatists have imposed curfews and closed down schools as part of their protest against President Paul Biya’s French-speaking government.