Cameroon: a senator from the ruling party in the hands of the separatists

Senator Regina Mundi was kidnapped in the city of Bamenda, in English-speaking Cameroon.

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Regina Mundi, elected from the CPDM, was kidnapped on Saturday April 30 in English-speaking Cameroon by the separatist movement of Ambazonia.

She appeared in a protest video this Sunday morning.

His captors demand that prisoners be released in exchange for his release. 

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Regina Mundi was kidnapped around noon on Saturday at Foncha Street, Bamenda city, according to the North West Governor quoted by Anadolu Agency.

She was then in the company of her driver who was also kidnapped, added Governor Adolphe Lélé Lafrique, who also said that a search had been launched to find them.

But on Sunday morning, the ruling party senator, an elderly lady, appeared in a video posted on social media.

Sitting on a sofa, under the flags of the separatists, she reads laboriously and obviously under duress a text dated April 30, 2022, in which she repeats the watchwords of the separatist movement.

This video was posted by a man posing as the deputy chief of staff of a group called the Ambazonia Defense Forces, Capo Daniel.

It is entitled: “ 

 In support of its broadcast, Capo Daniel sets out the demands of the kidnappers: the release of 75 of their own, detained in Kondengui prison, in Yaoundé.

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