Top opposition lawmaker shot dead in Cameroon

Cameroonian security forces

Cameroonian security forces patrol streets leading to the football stadium in Limbe on January 18, 2021 in the Anglophone zone of Cameroon. FILE PHOTO | AFP

Gunmen have shot and killed a prominent opposition Member of Parliament in the restive English-speaking North West of Cameroon where armed separatists have been battling government forces in their push to create a new state called Ambazonia, sources have confirmed.

Senator Barrister Henry Kemende of the opposition Social Democratic Front (SDF) party was pulled out of his car and gunned down in the Mile Two neighbourhood in Bamenda Tuesday evening, Senator Fon Chafah Isaac, another lawmaker from the region told Nation.Africa.