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Government orders internet blackout after protests against what activists call marginalisation of English-speakers.
From: Inside Story
Is Cameroon persecuting its English speakers?
Opposition leaders have been arrested and the internet has been cut in English-speaking regions for more than a week.
27 Jan 2017
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