Many in Cameroon’s English-speaking minority have protested against discrimination photo: GETTY IMAGES[/caption]
A court in Cameroon has convicted seven activists from the country’s English-speaking minority of rebellion and terrorism, handing them sentences ranging from 10 to 15 years.
They include the group’s leader, Mancho Bibixy, a radio presenter in the Anglophone North-West Region. Cameroon’s English-speaking minority say they are marginalised by the country’s Francophone majority. Separatists have been demanding independence. Correspondents say Mancho Bibixy’s radio broadcasts are associated with a radical movement in the north-western town of Bamenda. The North-West and South-West regions are the two mainly English-speaking areas. He was one of several activists arrested in January after anti-government protests.