No one was injured in the explosion which went off early
Thursday at Half Mile neighborhood of the city which will host Group F AFCON
matches including Tunisia, Mali, Mauritania and Gambia.
Separatist fighters who have vowed to disrupt AFCON in the
city said on social media they were responsible for the blast and stressed that
it was "a warning sign of what we will do during AFCON".
Separatist leaders had said they do not want AFCON matches
to take place in a region "at war".
Cameroon army has deployed additional ammunitions and troops
to the region who undertake routine day and night patrols.
Separatists had since 2017 been clashing with government
forces in Anglophone regions of Southwest and Northwest where they want to
create an independent nation they call "Ambazonia".
AFCON will officially begin on Sunday in the capital Yaounde
and will run for four weeks. Enditem.
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