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Dozens of Victims Escaping Fresh Violence in Cameroon

Moki Edwin Kindzeka

   BAMENDA, CAMEROON - Renewed fighting in Cameroon's restive
   English-speaking region has forced more than 70 people, mainly women
   and children, to flee for their lives and seek shelter at an orphanage.
   Many of them, however, are very ill, battling malaria and severe
   malnutrition. Others are dealing with fresh wounds from the fighting
   between government troops and separatist fighters.

   They look tired, hungry, unkempt and sick. The victims of the
   separatist violence in the English-speaking northwestern Menchum
   administrative unit say that in the past two weeks, they have escaped
   escalating conflict.

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