Friday, February fourteenth, the UN says at least 22 people have been killed in a village in the Northwest region of Cameroon. Over half of those killed were children. No one has claimed responsibility for Friday’s incident but the opposition parties blame the killing on the government.
Cameroon government suppresses private security companies
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Cameroon’s government says it is clamping down on
unlicensed private security firms in an effort to improve public safety and
enforce regulations.
It plans to close all but nine of the country’s nearly 50
private companies. The sector's numbers have risen sharply in the two years
since the militant group Boko Haram began carrying out attacks in the country’s
northern region. Cameroon has an estimated 70,000 private security guards,
compared with about 15,000 armed policemen.
The closings could leave tens of thousands of people
jobless, authorities say, but they contend the sector has become rife with
crime.
Criminal suspects are all too common among the ranks of
private security guards, according to Senior Police Commissioner Ossomba
Ansleme. He said two guards had been taken into custody as suspects in a rape
case being investigated this week in the capital.
Police reportedly still are hunting for five people
suspected of attacking Chinese gold miners last week in the town of Ngaoundere.
Authorities killed one alleged assailant – and then realized the dead man, and
possibly his five peers, had been hired as guards by the victims.
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