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Abducted Cameroon schoolchildren freed

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About 166 children and a number of teachers who were briefly kidnapped by unknown gunmen on Saturday in Cameroon have been freed.

They were taken from a Catholic school in the town of Kumbo.

School authorities negotiated their release and the children were returned yesterday. It is unclear why they were kidnapped but there have been a number of incidents in the area since 2016 due to ongoing conflict in the mainly English-speaking North-West and South-West Regions, where government forces are battling separatists demanding independence.

The government is led by the French-speaking President Paul Biya, who has been in power since 1982.

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