Cameroon: arrests made in Buea land dispute
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on CameroonnewsagencyOur method
A dispute has pitted the communities of Ewonda and Lower Ewonda against each other for five years over 101 hectares on the slopes of Mount Cameroon, in Buea. Gendarmes arrested young people from Ewonda after allegations of trespassing and destruction, while both sides claim ancestral rights to the land.
Cameroonian gendarmes arrested young people in the village of Ewonda, in Buea, amid a land dispute over about 101 hectares at the foot of Mount Cameroon. The arrests took place on 13 October following allegations of trespassing and destruction, reports Cameroonnewsagency.
The recently rehabilitated village of Lower Ewonda says the arrests are justified by failure to comply with a court order concerning some of the disputed plots. Both communities claim the land as their ancestral portions, in a dispute that has lasted five years, according to Cameroonnewsagency.
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