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On the Horizon: March - August 2024
This edition includes entries on Cameroon, South Sudan, Venezuela and Western Sahara, offering a snapshot into emergent conflicts and crises in the next three to six months in a clear, accessible...
Cameroun : réexaminer le « statut spécial » des régions anglophones
En 2019, le gouvernement camerounais a reconnu l’identité distincte des régions anglophones en leur octroyant un statut spécial. Mais ce cadre légal n’a pas mis fin à la rébellion séparatiste. Une...
A Second Look at Cameroon’s Anglophone Special Status
In 2019, Cameroon’s government acknowledged the Anglophone regions’ distinct identity by giving them Special Status. Yet this legal framework has not quelled the separatist rebellion. Would reforming...
Canada Initiative Offers Opportunity for Cameroon Peace Process
Pre-talks between Cameroon’s government and Anglophone separatists, facilitated by Canada, have opened the door to a long-overdue peace process, but Yaoundé has baulked. The government should embrace...
Cameroon’s Anglophone conflict: Children should be able to return to school
Originally published in The Africa Report Since 2017, fighting between separatist insurgents and the military has disrupted the education of over 700,000 children in Cameroon’s two Anglophone...
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Militantes, victimes, œuvrant pour la paix : les femmes dans le conflit anglophone au Cameroun
Les années de combats entre les séparatistes et l'Etat camerounais ont durement touché les femmes et déraciné des centaines de milliers d’entre elles. Le gouvernement et les partenaires extérieurs...
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Rebels, Victims, Peacebuilders: Women in Cameroon’s Anglophone Conflict: Africa Report N°307 | 23 February 2022
Years of fighting between separatists and the state in Cameroon have hit women hard, uprooting hundreds of thousands. The government and external partners should step up aid for the displaced. Donors...
Easing Cameroon’s Ethnopolitical Tensions, On and Offline Africa Report N°295 | 3 December 2020
Two years after Cameroon’s contested presidential election, political rivalry has taken a worrying direction as the incumbent’s supporters trade ethnic slurs with backers of his main challenger. The...
Cameroon’s Anglophone Dialogue: A Work in Progress
President Paul Biya has proposed a national dialogue aimed at resolving the Cameroonian government’s conflict with Anglophone separatists. But the mooted dialogue will include neither separatists...
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Cameroon’s Anglophone Crisis: How to Get to Talks?
After twenty months of clashes, the government and the separatists are both refusing to give ground. Both sides must explore compromise solutions aimed at a level of regional autonomy somewhere...
A Household Name in Cameroon
Crisis Group’s work in Cameroon put underreported risks in this country on the policymaking radar years before the outbreaks of the Boko Haram insurgency in the Far North and a separatist revolt in...
Uncertainties Deepen in Cameroon after Divisive Election
Cameroon went to the polls on 7 October amid several crises, notably the conflict between the government and Anglophone separatists. Crisis Group’s expert Hans De Marie Heungoup, in Cameroon during...
Cameroon: Divisions Widen Ahead of Presidential Vote
The risk of violence around the 7 October vote is greatest in Anglophone regions, but other parts of Cameroon could also be affected. The government should take steps to curb divisive rhetoric and...
Election présidentielle au Cameroun : les fractures se multiplient
Briefing Afrique de Crisis Group N°142 Nairobi/Bruxelles, 3 octobre 2018 Que se passe-t-il ? L’élection présidentielle du 7 octobre 2018 intervient dans un contexte très tendu. Le pays est tiraillé...
Cameroon: Proposed Anglophone General Conference Deserves National and International Support
Following the deaths of at least 400 civilians over the past year in Cameroon’s Anglophone regions, an Anglophone community conference scheduled for 21 and 22 November 2018 could offer a decisive...
Dialogue is Essential to Unite Cameroon’s Disparate Voices
In March 2018, Crisis Group’s Giustra Fellow, Tanda Theophilus, travelled for four weeks to the cities of Buea and Douala, which are at the heart of the Anglophone crisis that pits separatists...
Crise anglophone au Cameroun : le dialogue demeure l’unique solution viable
La récente flambée de la violence dans les régions anglophones du Cameroun semble indiquer la naissance d’une insurrection. Le gouvernement doit, pour éradiquer la violence en cette année électorale...
Cameroon’s Anglophone Crisis: Dialogue Remains the Only Viable Solution
A recent spike of violence in Cameroon’s Anglophone regions points to an emerging insurgency. To prevent more violence as the country enters a delicate election year, the government needs to kick...
Extrême-Nord du Cameroun : le casse-tête de la reconstruction en période de conflit - Briefing Afrique de Crisis Group N°133
Nairobi/Bruxelles, 25 octobre 2017 I. Synthèse Le Cameroun est officiellement en guerre contre Boko Haram depuis mai 2014. Bien que le conflit ait graduellement baissé en intensité, après avoir...