No fewer than 206 network transmission sites belonging to MTN have been destroyed as increasingly bold armed separatists battle with government troops in the English-speaking regions of Cameroon.

As the secessionists – dubbed Amba Boys – pursue their mission to create an independent state they will call “Federal Republic of Ambazonia (Southern Cameroons)”, their actions have left the North West and South West Regions with intermittent network access – and in some parts, there is no longer any mobile telephone network coverage.