In Cameroon, violent clashes between government forces and separatists from the English-speaking parts of the country started in 2017. Since then, at least 598,000 people have had to leave their homes and about 2 million have been left in need of humanitarian aid.
The anglophone crisis resulted from the government’s repressive response to largely peaceful protests in 2016-2017. Protesters were demanding an end to the marginalisation of the anglophone minority.
Since then, Cameroon’s military has been fighting separatist forces from the two anglophone regions of the country: North-West and South-West.
