Cameroon: Release of an 83-Year-Old Missionary and His Assistant After 48 Hours

Yaoundé — The kidnapping and subsequent release, within 48 hours, of an 83-year-old British missionary and his Cameroonian assistant have brought the forgotten conflict in the English-speaking regions of Cameroon back into the international media spotlight.

Brother Huub Welters, a Missionary of the Mill Hill Missionary Society of St. Joseph (MHM), and his assistant, Henry Kang, were kidnapped on April 1 on the road from Bamenda to Ilung. As the Mill Hill Missionaries report on their website,…