Operation Bamenda Clean

Operation Bamenda Clean is an ongoing Cameroonian special counter-insurgency operation in Bamenda, Northwest Region, aimed at preventing armed Ambazonian separatists from operating in the city. By January 2021, Cameroon was gradually achieving what a security analyst at the University of Yaoundé called "relative peace" in Bamenda, and the mayor of the city stated that the operation was succeeding. However, as of March 2021, separatist-imposed ghost towns remained widely respected by the local population, and separatists controlled most roads leading in and out of Bamenda.

Operation Bamenda Clean
Part of the Anglophone Crisis

Cameroonian soldiers in front of a captured rebel hideout at Bamenda in 2021
Date8 September 2020 present
Location
Status Ongoing
Belligerents
 Cameroon  Ambazonia
Commanders and leaders
Brig. Gen. Valere Nka
Brig. Gen. Ekongwesse Divine Nnoko
Gousmo Emile
Paul Achobang (Mayor of Bamenda)
"General Sweet Tuma" (POW)
"General Lion" 
"General Cobra" (POW)
"General Cross and Die" 
"General Trouble" 
"General Satan" 
Units involved
Rapid Intervention Battalion
5th Joint Gendarmerie Region
Police units
Ambazonia Defence Forces
Bambalang Marine Forces
Other unspecified armed groups
Casualties and losses
Over 20 surrendered (according to Cameroon)
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