authorities announced judicial inquiries Southwest region. On 24 November, after alleged mismanagement of Covid-19 unidentified gunmen attacked a school in funds. Ekondo Titi, Southwest region, killing four BACKGROUND students and a teacher. On 27 February, suspected armed Fighting between armed separatist groups separatists abducted a doctor in the and the army continued in the Northwest and Northwest region, accusing him of not Southwest anglophone regions. The armed supporting the separatist cause. He was conflict in the Far North region continued to released after payment of a ransom. On 13 rage with the active presence of the armed March, according to the National Union of groups Boko Haram and Islamic State in Journalists, a journalist at Cameroon Radio West Africa Province (ISWAP). As of 31 Television was abducted from her home by October, Cameroon hosted more than 1 suspected armed separatists. She was million internally displaced people in the released after payment of a ransom. On 15 Northwest, Southwest and Far North regions. June, six civil servants were abducted in UNLAWFUL ATTACKS AND KILLINGS Misore-Balue, Southwest region, and one of them was executed, according to government According to Human Rights Watch, soldiers media and human rights organizations. killed at least nine people in the Southwest Traditional authorities were also targeted, region on 10 January and looted homes. On suspected of siding with the Cameroonian 8 and 9 June, Cameroonian security forces government. On 13 February, armed men also killed two people, raped a 53-year-old abducted four traditional leaders in Fontem, woman, and destroyed and looted at least 33 Southwest region. Three of them were homes, shops and a traditional leader’s reportedly later found dead. palace in the Northwest region. These human rights abuses happened in Following an improvised explosive device the context of growing inter-communal attack on a Rapid Intervention Battalion tensions. Between 22 and 26 February, at convoy in Bamenda on 8 December, least 4,200 people were displaced from elements of the army forces reportedly burnt seven villages in Nwa subdivision, Northwest a large number of houses in the town. region, after attacks by Fulani vigilante ABUSES BY ARMED GROUPS groups, resulting in the deaths of at least eight people. NORTHWEST AND SOUTHWEST REGIONS On 5 March, armed men attacked Fulani Armed groups continued to commit grave herdsmen in the lower Menchum valley in human rights abuses in the Northwest and Boyo, Northwest region, killing at least 10 Southwest regions, targeting people, people, after the herdsmen’s cattle had healthcare facilities and schools. allegedly destroyed a farmer’s crops. From January to June,OCHA reported 29 According to the OCHA, two days later in the attacks on healthcare facilities in the same locality armed men attacked Fulani Northwest region and seven in the Southwest people, killing six people, allegedly to avenge region; health workers and patients were the death of a woman burnt alive in her abducted and installations were burnt. house in Beneng village. On 9 January, the head of a school in FAR NORTH REGION Ossing, Southwest region, was reportedly Boko Haram and ISWAP continued to killed by unidentified men. According to the commit serious human rights abuses in the OCHA, on 5 March unidentified armed men Far North region, including killings, abducted a student from a school in the abductions, looting and burning of homes village of Batoke, Southwest region. On 6 and properties, mostly targeting farmers and March, armed men abducted two teachers fishermen in remote areas. and a student from a school in Bamenda, Amnesty International Report 2021/22 114