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Cameroon: No More Half Measures in Cameroon's Anglophone Crisis
ISS, 23 March 2021
From 16 January to 7 February, Cameroon hosted the African Nations Championship. Some games were played in the town of Limbe in the South-West region, which is in the grip of an… Read more »
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Cameroon: Election of Octogenarians to Top Posts Draws Mixed Reactions
VOA, 20 March 2021
There have been mixed reactions in Cameroon to 88-year-old President Paul Biya's orders that his party-dominated upper and lower houses of Parliament reelect officials who are over… Read more »
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Cameroon: Senate - Marcel Niat Njifenji Re-Elected
Cameroon Tribune, 19 March 2021
The election of the permanent bureau of the Senate for the 2021 legislative year took place during a plenary sitting of the House on March 18, 2021. Read more »
Cameroon Urged to Speak With All Anglophone Sectors
To revive national cohesion, Cameroon's government needs a political solution that encourages active minority groups to lay down their arms and turn away from secession. For this to happen, the administrative half-measures put in place must end, and the problem treated with more than lip-service and slogans. Rejecting a return to federalism in the name of territorial integrity is one such slogan often used by civil servants and government representatives, writes Paul-Simon Handy for the Institute for International Studies. Cameroon's North-West and South-West regions have been torn apart by violence since late 2016, as armed separatists seek independence for the country's minority Anglophone regions.
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An attack on the village of Ebam in the South-West region was one of the worst by Cameroon's army in recent years, says Human Right Watch. On March 1, 2020, soldiers raped at least ... Read more »
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Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said that soldiers killed at least nine civilians in Cameroon's Anglophone south-west region, on January 10, 2021. Among the dead was a woman and ... Read more »
Women protest, holding up a poster with images of atrocities committed in an ongoing conflict between government forces and armed separatists, in Bamenda, Cameroon, Sept. 7, 2018.
