Cameroon: Cameroon's Conflict Is Part of a Bigger Trend - Negotiations Are Losing Ground to Military Solutions
Wednesday, 20 August 2025 () [The Conversation Africa] In central Africa, a violent conflict has been unfolding for nearly eight years. What began in 2016 as peaceful protests by lawyers and teachers against the increasing "francophonisation" of the legal and education systems in Cameroon's anglophone regions quickly escalated into an armed conflict between separatist groups and government forces.
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