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Cameroon Military Delivering Aid to English-Speaking Regions

Moki Edwin Kindzeka

   YAOUNDE, CAMEROON - Cameroon's military is taking 55 truckloads of
   humanitarian aid to its English-speaking regions, amid heavy clashes
   with separatist forces that have killed at least 25 people in the past
   two weeks.

   A crowd of about 200 is gathered in central Yaounde to witness 40
   trucks, most of them belonging to the military, depart with
   humanitarian assistance to the troubled English-speaking Northwest and
   Southwest regions.

   Among them is teacher Peter Siwe and his wife and three children, who
   escaped fighting in the town of Kumbo and have been in Yaounde for over
   a year. Siwe, who has been jobless, says he thought the food, medical
   supplies and mattresses were to be distributed in Yaounde.

   What Cameroon really needs, he says, is for the government to resolve
   the crisis so people can return and build their communities.

   "For how long will you keep feeding the people?" he asked. "What should
   be on the spotlight now is resolving the crisis so that people can go
   back home. They will continue to work their farms, continue to go to
   the market. I see people who can barely feed now. People who were well
   to do, people who have been frustrated, but they are ready to go back
   home."

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