Cameroon’s military has announced that it had arrested several dozen individuals as well as destroyed hundreds of locally-made guns and other weapons in the country’s northern region. The series of operations were conducted in the northern region that borders Chad and Nigeria that has been riddled by insecurity.
A military compactor crushed over 2,500 locally made guns, ammunition and other weapons the military says it seized over the past three weeks from smugglers, hostage-takers, poachers and suspected Boko Haram fighters.
Cameroon has experienced increasing instability since 2013 when the Boko Haram insurgency first began to spill over from Nigeria. Since November 2016, the country has also been facing a secessionist movement that has killed more than 3,000 people.
