Urgent: Vice President of the south west court of Appeal Kidnapped

[Urgent]: Vice-President of the South West Court of Appeal kidnapped

Magistrate Martin Mbeng was kidnapped early this Sunday morning

It was early in the afternoon that the information on the kidnapping of the Vice-President of the South West Court of Appeal fell. Magistrate Martin Mbeng was kidnapped early this Sunday morning. 

If for the time being we do not know the identity and motivations of the kidnappers of Martin Mbeng, we can safely make the link between this kidnapping and the current climate in this area.

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Indeed, since the beginning of the Anglophone crisis, several personalities of the Cameroonian public administration have been the object of either kidnapping or assassination. The kidnappers, who are usually armed groups in Ambazonia, use their victims to blackmail the power of Yaoundé. In the middle of the week several European tourists were released by BIR elements from the hands of armed men in the English-speaking area