Cameroon: Violent Clashes Between Motorbike Taxi Drivers and the Inhabitants of Douala
On December 31, 2011 in the popular district of Deido in Douala, the economic Capital of Cameroon, riots broke out between the inhabitants of the district and motorbike taxi drivers, also know as “benskiners”. The violence is ongoing according to this article in the daily newspaper Le Jour and several testimonies by Cameroonian netizens.
Elie Kopter explains the reason for the riots on Facebook:
un jeune homme de deido rentrait de boîte avec sa copine (05h du mat ) ; elle se fait arracher son sac à main par le passager d'une mototaxi et comme son copain tentait de s'interposer il reçoit un coup de couteau à la base du cou , et en décède . (...)
