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ACAPS Thematic Report: Cameroon - The education crisis in the Northwest and Southwest regions, 19 February 2021
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CRISIS OVERVIEW
700,000 children have been affected by school closures in Cameroon’s Northwest (NW) and Southwest (SW) regions (referred to from now on as the NWSW regions), as a result of the Anglophone crisis that began in 2016 (key informant interview 16/11/2020; OCHA 31/05/2019). Some separatist armed groups are protesting against the Government of Cameroon’s (GoC) education system by forcing schools to close and attacking students, teachers, and education facilities. In 2017, the separatists imposed a boycott on formal education that uses the GoC’s curriculum, and most schools in the NWSW regions are closed for the fourth consecutive year (IFRI 06/2020; ICG 02/08/2017; BBC 02/09/2019; The Guardian 03/09/2019; AI 12/06/2018; key informant interview 03/02/2021).