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Cameroon Hands Road Construction to Military Following Separatist Attacks, Abduction

Cameroon’s mil­i­tary has tak­en over con­struc­tion of roads link­ing its trou­bled west­ern regions to Nige­ria after what it said were repeat­ed sep­a­ratist attacks. The mil­i­tary says the rebels abduct­ed eight peo­ple this week, includ­ing road work­ers, who were aban­don­ing work sites due to inse­cu­ri­ty.  Cameroon says scores of gov­ern­ment troops and road con­struc­tion equip­ment of…