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Vol 66 No 5

Published 7th March 2025


Cameroon

Anglophone separatists’ campaign reaches bloody stalemate

Schisms among the Anglophones and brutal repression by President Biya’s forces are blocking the separatists

Eight years of gruesome clashes between Anglophone separatists and government troops have brought a Federal Republic of Ambazonia in the North-West and South-West provinces, which some Anglophones call Southern Cameroons, no closer. This is where most English-speakers, who comprise about one quarter of the population, French-speakers making up about 60%, are concentrated. Nor has the government shown any prospect of quelling the insurgency by force as the violence escalates.

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