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Cameroon school kidnap: More than 70 pupils seized in Bamenda
Dozens of people, mostly school pupils, have been kidnapped from a boarding school in the west of Cameroon.
Dozens of people, mostly school pupils, have been kidnapped from a boarding school in the west of Cameroon. The BBC launches its largest bureau outside of the UK, in Kenya's capital, Nairobi. Also, a sculpture of Liverpool and Egypt football star Mohamed Salah unveiled in his home country is raising eyebrows on social media.
Image: In a video released of the children kidnapped in Cameroon, the man holding the camera turns it on himself at the end.
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