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Crisis in Cameroon’s Anglophone Region Escalates After Kidnapping of Students

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11/06/2018

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Crisis in Cameroon’s Anglophone Region Escalates After Kidnapping of Students

Top News: In Cameroon, armed men have kidnapped at least 79 school boys and their principal from a school near Bamenda, in the country’s Northwest region, where government forces are cracking down on an armed separatist movement.

Government officials are claiming the attack was carried out by separatists, and a video purporting to show the captives was posted on social media by men calling themselves “Amba boys,” a reference to the separatist movement. However, the identity of the kidnappers has not been verified, and the Ambazonia Governing Council, which oversees one separatist faction, condemned the kidnapping and blamed government forces for impersonating separatists.

Amnesty International has called for the release of the boys, saying “The abduction of schoolchildren and teachers can never be justified. Whoever is responsible must release and return the victims immediately.”

United States: Amid deep polarization, Americans head to the polls on Tuesday to vote in the midterm elections that will determine which political party controls the House of Representatives and the Senate. In addition, voters will be deciding more than 30 governors’ races in states across the country. More than 36 million Americans have already cast their ballots via early voting or absentee voting, outnumbering the total number of votes cast the 2014 midterm elections in some states.

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AFRICA

•  Seventeen migrants making their way from Algeria and Morocco across the Mediterranean Sea have died over the last 24 hours. The Spanish Coast Guard reported that another 100 people had been rescued.

•  In Yaounde, Cameroon’s 85-year-old president, Paul Biya, was sworn in for his seventh term against a backdrop of rising tension in the country’s Anglophone regions.

•  The U.N. Security Council is considering lifting sanctions on Eritrea.

AMERICAS

•  Around 2,000 Central Americans walking north with the migrant caravan have reached Mexico City and are seeking shelter at the Jesus Martinez stadium.

•  The International Energy Agency said on Tuesday that Venezuela’s production of crude oil is in “free fall,” and may drop to levels of less than 1 million barrels per day, half of its output last year.

•  In the United States, Facebook and major television networks including CNN, NBC and Fox have all refused to air a campaign ad from U.S. President Donald Trump’s political team that seeks to represent immigrants as a danger to American citizens.

ASIA

•  Uighurs and their supporters held demonstrations in Geneva on Tuesday, while Chinese officials faced scrutiny from the U.N. Human RIghts Council over the mass detention of Uighurs in Xinjiang.

•  The United Nations released a report on Tuesday stating that 52 people were killed and 339 were injured during Afghanistan’s Oct. 20 parliamentary election.

•  Taliban fighters killed 20 Afghan government soldiers stationed at a post near the country’s border with Iran.

EUROPE

•  In Germany, the trial of a 94-year-old former Nazi soldier, who is charged with being an accessory to murder during World War II, began on Tuesday.

•  In Poland, voter turnout for local elections on Monday was the highest it has been in decades. In a polarized political environment, the governing Law and Justice party made gains in rural and low-income areas where their populist and anti-immigrant rhetoric has found a foothold, while losing ground among liberal voters in Poland’s cities.

•  Two members of Russia’s Duma, Artyom Turov and Alexei Korniyenko, are participating in the U.S. midterms as election observers.

MIDDLE EAST

•  A year after Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman rounded up members of the country’s elite at the Ritz Carlton hotel in Riyadh, an unknown number of people remain in detention.

•  European signatories to the Iran nuclear deal are determined to work around renewed U.S. sanctions that took effect on Monday.

•  In Syria, the U.S.-backed Kurdish militia, the Syrian Democratic Forces, weathered counterattacks from the Islamic State in the country’s east as a sandstorm grounded U.S. aircraft.

- By Jefcoate O'Donnell

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