Tag: Anglophone
ISS: Time to resolve Cameroon’s persistent yet forgotten crisis
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The government of one of Cameroon's Anglophone regions ordered its border with Nigeria closed this weekend in response to calls by activists...
