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Opposition leader out of hospital

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    Cameroon’s main opposition leader, John Fru Ndi, was released from hospital on Monday, after being treated for injuries sustained when security forces used water hoses to disperse marchers in the economic capital, Douala, AFP reported. Some activists of Fru Ndi’s Social Democratic Front (SDF) and other protesters were detained, AFP reported a party official as saying.

    Monday’s march was the latest in a series of twice-weekly protests staged since February by rights advocates, opposition leaders and family members to press the government into solving the case of nine boys who have been missing since 28 January. The boys had been arrested - for allegedly stealing a gas canister - by the Commandement Operationnel, a military crime-fighting unit widely accused of human rights abuses, including extra-judicial killings.

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