“Never turning back”, Papua New Guinea’s Bougainville separatists expect vote for independence
Buka, Papua New GuineaReuters Twenty years after combatants snapped arrows to signal the end of hostilities in the Papua New Guinea region of Bougainville, voters will on Saturday cast ballots in a long-awaited independence referendum. Prominent separatists say the independence movement cannot be stopped. “Bougainville is never turning back because we paid a very high […]
CAMEROON: SEPARATIST CONFLICT TRAPS GIRLS IN SEX AND SERVITUDE
A report from the Thomson Reuters Foundation looks at the plight of girls in the midst of Cameroon’s conflict…
Catholic priest killed in south-west Cameroon
A Catholic priest was killed in south-west Cameroon on Friday amid ongoing violence between the military and separatist forces. Agenzia Fides reports that it is unknown whether Fr Alexandre Sob Nougi was killed by a stray bullet during crossfire or deliberately targeted when he was fatally shot on a road about 25 kilometres north-east of Buea. […]