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Cameroon: Govt Grants 'Special Status' its to Restive Regions. They Don't Feel Special
African Arguments, 13 January 2020
The government says a new bill removes Anglophone separatists' reasons to fight, but what's actually in it? Read more »
In the last week of 2019, Cameroon's parliament approved a bill that will grant "special status" to the country's two Anglophone regions. This initiative was a result of the Grand National Dialogue that the government convened in October purportedly to resolve the war of secession that has killed at least 3,000 people and displaced over half a million since its outbreak in 2017. For their part, separatists have roundly rejected the measure as illegitimate.
Cameroon's conflict-ridden anglophone regions
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In a televised New Year's message, President Paul Biya vowed to do everything possible to hunt down the separatists in the crisis-hit regions of Northwest and Southwest. Read more »
The bill, among other things, contemplates the creation of assemblies of chiefs, regional assemblies, and councils, with each of the two regions having elected presidents, vice ... Read more »
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