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Welcome home Floyd! Boxer Floyd Mayweather was finally released from a Las Vegas jail early Friday morning after serving two months of a three-month sentence in a misdemeanour domestic battery case.

The undefeated boxer walked out of the Clark County Detention Center greeted by friends and family. Media who were there say that Mayweather looked fit and healthy. He wore a leather Miami Heat cap, pulled a grey hooded sweatshirt over his head and shared hugs with about 20 family members and friends, including his 12-year-old daughter, Iyanna Mayweather, and his manager, Leonard Ellerbe.

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He said nothing to the media as he got behind the wheel of a blue Bentley sedan with several friends inside, including rapper 50 Cent, and drove away.

English speaking Cameroon on ‘lockdown’ as Operation Ghost Town begins

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Strike part of ongoing civil unrest against use of French in schools and courts and perceived marginalisation.

Cameroon’s English-speaking cities of Bamenda and Buea are “on lock-down” due to a strike started on 9 January.

Schools which were due to reopen remained closed, and businesses were shuttered after leaders of the Cameroon Anglophone Civil Society Consortium, (Cacsc) called for “Operation Ghost Town”.

The strike is in protest against perceived marginalisation and the use of French in courts and schools in Cameroon’s Southwest and Northwest provinces, the country’s only Anglophone areas.

Lawyers, teachers and students have been striking and protesting since October 2016.Some groups have also taken to the streets demanding a return to a federal state system and the breakaway of the Northwest and Southwest provinces and the restoration of “Southern Cameroons”, or the Republic of Ambazonia, a British mandate during colonisation.Protests have resulted in the death of at least four protesters in Bamenda, according to police sources.

Dozens have been arrested, with right groups calling on authorities to investigate on the deaths.The Cameroonian government, which denied allegations of excessive force by military and police to quell protests, is engaging with the organisers of the strike.

However, it has rejected calls for a referendum on a possible return to a federal system.Some analysts have claimed authorities are failing to address people’s long-standing grievances that go beyond the use of French in courts and schools.

Southern Cameroons was the southern part of the British Mandate territory of Cameroons during the colonisation.In 1961, people of Southern Cameroons voted whether to join Nigeria or the Republic of Cameroon, which had already obtained independence from Britain and France one year earlier.The vote resulted in Southern Cameroons becoming part of the French speaking Republic of Cameroon.

In 1972, a new constitution was adopted in Cameroon, replacing the federal state with a unitary state.

The “Cameroon Anglophone Movement” was created in 1984. People originally sought a return to a federal system, but eventually started calling for independence.

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