Cameroon detainees go on hunger strike

Detained leaders of Cameroon’s Anglophone Separatist Movement have begun an indefinite hunger strike.

They say they are concerned over the whereabouts of around 200 of their comrades after riots in two separate prisons last week.

The detainees say they also have fears that a genocide of English-speakers in Cameroon will take place.

The secessionist movement has been campaigning to create an independent state called Ambazonia made up of the north-west and south-west region which is the two English-speaking regions in Cameroon.

But French is the most widely spoken official language in the country.