{"id":11907,"date":"2022-01-13T15:49:39","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T15:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/?p=11907"},"modified":"2022-01-13T15:45:03","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T15:45:03","slug":"gunshots-reported-in-cameroon-city-hosting-four-afcon-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/gunshots-reported-in-cameroon-city-hosting-four-afcon-teams","title":{"rendered":"Gunshots reported in Cameroon city hosting four Afcon teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>Gunfire rang out on Wednesday across the city of Buea in South West Cameroon, the home base for four soccer teams competing in this month&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations, local news outlets reported.<\/p>\n<p>Africa&#8217;s premier soccer tournament kicked off on Sunday amid security concerns, especially in western regions where a separatist insurgency has carried out deadly attacks on civilians and the army since 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Mali, Gambia, Tunisia and Mauritania from Group F are all based in Buea, where many clashes between the army and the rebels have occurred.<\/p>\n<p>Buea is about an hour&#8217;s drive from Limbe, a coastal city where two Group F games are being played on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters was not able to independently verify if there was fighting in the city on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Militias from the minority English-speaking west have sought to form a breakaway state called Ambazonia since 2017 in protest against what they say is their marginalisation by the French-speaking government.<\/p>\n<p>The conflict has killed at least 3,000 people and forced nearly one million to flee. The separatist and government forces have been accused of abuses against civilians.<\/p>\n<p>Henry Kemende, a prominent local senator, was shot dead on Tuesday by unknown assailants in Bamenda, the capital of the neighbouring North West region.<\/p>\n<p>Cho Ayaba, who leads the Ambazonian Defence Force (ADF), one of the main anglophone separatist groups, denied responsibility for the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Buea and Bamenda experienced violent protests in October and November, after police officers shot and killed two young girls in separate incidents.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\">Mozambique<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Mozambique. Gunfire rang out on Wednesday across the city of Buea in South West Cameroon, the home base for four soccer teams competing in this month&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations, local news outlets reported. Africa&#8217;s premier soccer tournament kicked off on Sunday amid security concerns, especially in western regions where a separatist insurgency [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":11906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,17,16],"tags":[233,281,283],"class_list":["post-11907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-sport","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-mozambique","tag-mozambique"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gunshots reported in Cameroon city hosting four Afcon teams - Mozambique<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Gunfire rang out on Wednesday across the city of Buea in South West Cameroon, the home base for four soccer teams compet ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/gunshots-reported-in-cameroon-city-hosting-four-afcon-teams\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gunshots reported in Cameroon city hosting four Afcon teams\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Gunfire rang out on Wednesday across the city of Buea in South West Cameroon, the home base for four soccer teams compet ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/gunshots-reported-in-cameroon-city-hosting-four-afcon-teams\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Mozambique\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-01-13T15:49:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/sites\/64\/2022\/01\/img-61e048d3dcc8b.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"690\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/gunshots-reported-in-cameroon-city-hosting-four-afcon-teams#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/gunshots-reported-in-cameroon-city-hosting-four-afcon-teams\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Gunshots reported in Cameroon city hosting four Afcon teams\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-01-13T15:49:39+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/gunshots-reported-in-cameroon-city-hosting-four-afcon-teams\"},\"wordCount\":270,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/gunshots-reported-in-cameroon-city-hosting-four-afcon-teams#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/sites\/64\/2022\/01\/img-61e048d3dcc8b.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Mozambique\",\"Mozambique\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"sport\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/gunshots-reported-in-cameroon-city-hosting-four-afcon-teams#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/gunshots-reported-in-cameroon-city-hosting-four-afcon-teams\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/gunshots-reported-in-cameroon-city-hosting-four-afcon-teams\",\"name\":\"Gunshots reported in Cameroon city hosting four Afcon teams - 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