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Cameroon: Mass Grave Found With Bodies of 2021 Kidnap Victims - Military
VOA, 7 August 2023
Military officials in Cameroon say they have found a mass grave near the border with Nigeria containing the bodies of nine civilians, including five government officials, who were… Read more »
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Cameroon: Women Protest Separatist War, Cost of Living On Pan African Women's Day
VOA, 31 July 2023
Hundreds of women and activists marched in the capital of Cameroon Monday, calling for an end to the country's separatist crisis and for the government to provide more help to… Read more »
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Cameroon: What Citizens Say About Ending Six Years of Anglophone Conflict
The Conversation Africa, 30 July 2023
The armed conflict in Cameroon between separatist groups and the military is in its sixth year. Armed groups are fighting for secession of the English-speaking north-west and… Read more »
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Cameroon: English-Speaking Civilians Say Economic Activity At Standstill After Separatist Roadblocks
VOA, 20 July 2023
In Cameroon, authorities say separatists have set up roadblocks to at least 20 western districts to protest what they call excessive brutality by government troops. The rebels… Read more »
Cameroon Military Says Graves of 2021 Abduction Victims Found
Cameroon's military has said they have exhumed the bodies nine civilians, including five government officials, who were abducted by rebels in June 2021 at Ekondo Titi a town in Ndian, an administrative unit on the border with Nigeria.
Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Nguele said the military transported the remains to Buea, capital of the English-speaking Southwest Region for families to identify and collect their loved ones for reburial. Nguele said Cameroon can now confirm the individuals as dead and no longer missing.
Cameroon's separatist crisis conflict began in 2017, after teachers and lawyers in the Northwest and Southwest Regions, where English is the predominant language, protested against alleged discrimination from the country's French-speaking majority.
The military responded with a crackdown and fighters took up weapons claiming to defend English-speaking civilians from what separatists described as extreme military brutality.
The conflict has killed an estimated 6,000 people and displaced more than three quarters of a million others, according to the International Crisis Group.
InFocus
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Rights group Amnesty International (AI) in a new report released on Tuesday, July 4, 2023, said it has found new evidence of abuses in the country's north-west region - one of two ... Read more »
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Cameroon's government has deployed at least 100 troops to Gayama, a village on the border with Nigeria, after clashes between Cameroonian separatists and Nigerian herders left at ... Read more »
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Six years on, the crisis in the Anglophone (English-speaking) regions of Cameroon continues. Recent reports indicate that over 6,000 people have been killed, writes Laura-Stella ... Read more »
New research by Amnesty International has revealed the devastating scale of destruction caused by the ongoing conflict in Cameroon’s Anglophone regions. (file photo).
