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Ngala Killian Chimtom in Yaounde

Cameroon's struggling English-language papers call on president for bailout

English language newspapers in Cameroon have lost more than 80 percent of their readership in the North West and South West Regions due to the ongoing separatist crisis. © Killian Chimtom

Publishers of English-language newspapers in Cameroon are calling on President Paul Biya to establish a special fund to help them recover from the devastating effects of the Anglophone crisis, which has been felt in the country’s North West and South West regions since 2016.

The separatist war in the two English-speaking regions – which make up 20 percent of Cameroon’s population – has killed at least 6,000 people and forced over one million from their homes over the past seven years.

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