Hundreds flee Cameroon's anglophone areas ahead of vote

Cameroonian authorities Saturday banned the "massive exodus" from the country's restive anglophone regions, where violence has mounted ahead of next month's presidential election.

A humanitarian source in Buea, the capital of the South West Region, told AFP that "hundreds of families are in the process of fleeing for 'safer' regions," adding: "There is an atmosphere of fear."
South West governor of Bernard Okalia Bilai Saturday was quoted as saying by the national television and radio network that "journeys were authorised (but) relocations and a massive exodus are forbidden."