They blocked both Cameroonians and Nigerians travelling into and out of the two countries was well as engaging in shooting since last week in the borderline communities.
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Cameroon’s Authoritarianism Fuels its Anglophone Separatist War
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Cameroon is dealing with a deadly though insufficiently reported civil war in its two English-speaking (minority) regions of the North-West and South-West.
Since 2017, Anglophone separatists have been fighting for a new “Republic of Ambazonia“, derived from the Ambas Bay area in the Gulf of Guinea. On 10 January 2021, Cameroon’s soldiers killed at least nine civilians in the South-West region, and injured four more. In the second week of March there were further reports of the army killing many more civilians, although the army disputes this.