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As Africa Cup of Nations plays on in Cameroon, taxi drivers fear violence

Taxi drivers in Buea, Cameroon, look in their rearview mirrors, as they feel they are being targeted during the Africa Cup of Nations football tournament. © WikimediaCommons CC Betterfoto

At the regional hospital mortuary in Buea, Cameroon, people gather and cry after getting word that their loved one, a taxi driver, had been killed – caught in a gun battle between Cameroon security forces and anglophone separatists.

“We went to the scene and realised that two people were already dead. One was a taxi driver we know very well, Ngoh Winfred, nicknamed Willy Bobo,” says John Musonge Litute, president of a local taxi union.

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