Pope condemns ‘endless cycle’ of death in Cameroon separatist region

Pope Leo XIV condemned “an endless cycle of destabilisation and death” on a visit Thursday to a “bloodstained” region of Cameroon that has been gripped by an English-speaking separatist conflict for nearly a decade.

“Those who rob your land of its resources generally invest much of the profit in weapons, thus perpetuating an endless cycle of destabilisation and death,” the pontiff said in a message of peace in the northwestern city of…