About 30 killed in feud over land

About 30 villagers were killed in weekend attacks in the Akwaya district of Cameroon's South West region in what local sources described as a feud over land between neighbouring communities aggravated by separatist insurgents acting as hired guns. Anglophone insurgents began fighting the Cameroonian military in the South West and North West regions in 2017 after civilian protests calling for greater representation for the country's English-speaking minority were violently repressed. The Presbyterian Church in Cameroon said on Monday that the conflict in Akwaya had been escalating since April, with a series of tit-for-tat attacks by members of the neighbouring communities of Ballin and Mavass over a swath of farmland. The church said this weekend's violence began when attackers from Mavass, backed up by hired gunmen, stormed a funeral ceremony on Saturday.