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Cameroon: Anglophone Crisis - No End in Sight
DW, 4 January 2021
After four years of civil war in Anglophone Cameroon, state and rebel forces have refused to engage in serious dialoge while citizens and children suffer in crossfire. DW's Adrian… Read more »
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Cameroon: Cameroon - Schools Targeted in Anglophone Crisis
DW, 6 November 2020
As Paul Biya marks 38 years in office, residents in the country's Anglophone region are struggling to come to grips with a series of brutal attacks on schools. Read more »
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Cameroon: Escalating Anglophone Crisis Shows Little Sign of Abating
DW, 24 June 2020
Since 2017, Cameroon's mainly English-speaking Northwest and Southwest regions have been rocked by violence after separatists declared the independence of Ambazonia. DW examines… Read more »
No End in Sight to Cameroon's Anglophone Crisis
After four years of civil war in Anglophone Cameroon, the state and rebel forces have refused to engage in serious dialoge while citizens and children suffer in the crossfire. In September 2017, Southern Cameroons declared the independence of Ambazonia and began fighting against the government. Starting as a low-scale insurgency, the conflict spread to most parts of the Anglophone regions within a year. The war has killed at least 3,000 and forced more than half a million people to flee their homes. Although 2019 saw the first known instance of dialogue between the government and the separatists, as well as a state-organized national dialogue and the granting of a special status to the Anglophone regions, the war has continued to intensify. While the Covid-19 pandemic saw one armed group declare a unilateral ceasefire to combat the spread of the virus, other groups and the Cameroonian government ignored calls to follow suit and kept on fighting.
InFocus
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International Crisis Group has said that two years after Cameroon's contested presidential election, political rivalry has taken a worrying direction, as supporters of incumbent ... Read more »
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President Paul Biya, who came to power 38 years ago on November 6, maintains his position as Africa's second-longest-ruling leader. He is only beaten by Teodoro Obiang Nguema of ... Read more »
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Prior to the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, Cameroon, an oil exporter with a bloated bureaucracy, was still reeling from the 2014-2016 oil price collapse - one of the most ... Read more »
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On 24 October, armed men attacked a school in Kumba in the Southwest region of Cameroon. They killed seven students and injured several more. In the aftermath of the assault, the ... Read more »
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At least eight children were killed and a dozen wounded after attackers stormed a school in southwestern Cameroon with guns and machetes, the United Nations has said.. It was ... Read more »
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The Conversation's Julius A. Amin, who travelled the country and spoke with different communities, says he witnessed the devastating impact of the Anglophone conflict on people. Read more »
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Residents have said that the army attacked villages and other areas where they believed armed separatists were hiding, or holding training camps. Read more »
