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ISS: Time to resolve Cameroon’s persistent yet forgotten crisis

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Cameroon’s Anglophone conflict undermines national unity and is arguably the most damaging of the country's multiple crises. It sparked demands for secession and led...

ISS: No more half measures in Cameroon’s Anglophone crisis

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Recent military victories are no reason for complacency in the absence of a broad-based, inclusive political settlement. From 16 January to 7 February, Cameroon hosted...

Thousands flee as violence erupts in Cameroon

Thousands fled a fresh flare-up of violence in Cameroon’s separatist English-speaking regions, a local security source and a government source said. The army said...

Cameroon insurgency drains life from towns

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A unit of Cameroon's special forces edged up the winding main road of a once functioning village, past the rusted shell of...

As Cameroon votes, thousands are silenced by violence

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Nine corpses left on the roadside after a gunfight made Honrne Waba flee her village in north-west Cameroon in May and hide...

Cameroon cocoa exporters, farmers flee crisis in Anglophone region

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Cocoa firms operating in Cameroon have moved staff out of the Anglophone region of the country and farmers are abandoning their crops...

Anglophone Cameroon separatist conflict becomes bloodier

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Clashes between insurgents fighting for a breakaway republic in Cameroon's English-speaking region and security forces killed scores of people and displaced tens...

Dozens killed in Cameroon’s restive Anglophone region

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More than 24 were killed in a Cameroon Anglophone region, local sources said, although the exact circumstances were not immediately clear. The...

Cameroon Anglophone activists sentenced to jail

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A court in Cameroon convicted seven activists from the country's Anglophone minority of rebellion and acts of terrorism and gave them sentences...

US accuses Cameroon of targeted killings

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The United States accuses the Cameroonian government of "targeted killings", arson and looting in its fight against an Anglophone separatist movement. In...

Thousands of Cameroonians flee to escape Anglophone crackdown

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More than 43,000 Cameroonians fled as refugees to Nigeria to escape a crackdown by government on Anglophone separatists, local aid officials said....

Cameroonians flee to Nigeria as crackdown bites

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More than 15,000 Cameroonians fled to Nigeria amid a crackdown on Anglophone separatists, the United Nations refugee agency and Nigerian government officials...

Top Cameroon separatist arrested in Nigeria – allegation

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A leading member of a separatist movement in Cameroon was taken into custody in the capital of neighbouring Nigeria with his aides,...

Cameroon escalates crackdown on Anglophone separatists

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Cameroon's government ordered thousands of villagers to leave their homes in the Anglophone Southwest region as it deploys troops to root out...

Cameroon separatists kill four

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Separatists from Cameroon's Anglophone region killed four security forces in attacks over the past few days, the government said, an unprecedented violent...

Cameroon killings attributed to Anglophone secessionists

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Anglophone secessionists in Cameroon killed at least two gendarmes, two secessionist leaders and a security official said, signalling an escalation in a...

Over 500 Anglophones arrested in Cameroon

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More than 500 people have been swept up in mass arrests following violent demonstrations in Cameroon's English-speaking regions earlier this month, Amnesty...

Cameroon clashes claim 17 lives

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At least 17 people died in clashes between security forces and protesters in Cameroon's English-speaking regions, Amnesty International said, as violence broke...

Cameroon Anglophone protests leave at least eight dead

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Soldiers shot and killed at least eight people and wounded others in Cameroon's restless English-speaking regions during protests by activists calling for...

Cameroon Anglophone regions to shut Nigeria border over protests

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The government of one of Cameroon's Anglophone regions ordered its border with Nigeria closed this weekend in response to calls by activists...