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The Anglophone Crisis (French: Crise anglophone), also known as the Ambazonia War, [11] is an ongoing armed conflict in the English-speaking Northwest and Southwest regions of Cameroon, between the Cameroonian government and Ambazonian separatist groups, part of the long-standing Anglophone problem. [12]
They want a separate Anglophone state which they call Ambazonia. [1] In 2016, they protested and rioted. [1] In 2017, they began an insurgency in the Northwest and Southwest Regions of Cameroon. [1] On 4 October, two civilians were extrajudicially killed by the Ambazonia Defence Forces, who said that the civilians were Cameroonian spies. [3] [4]
The ADF said it had killed 38 Cameroonian soldiers since Paul Biya had announced the March 12 Senate election. [35] On February 25, nineteen athletes were wounded in multiple explosions during the Mount Cameroon Race of Hope. The Ambazonia Defence Forces (ADF) claimed responsibility, saying that their primary target had been Cameroonian elite ...
On January 9, Cameroonian forces raided a separatist hideout in Ewai. Cameroon claimed that at least five separatists were killed, while the separatists claimed to have suffered three dead. Hundreds of people fled Ewai during the raid. [3] On January 11, a gendarme officer shot a civilian dead in Mamfe. [4]
From 2017 to 2023, over 100 Ambazonian commanders were killed in the insurgency. [4] For comparison, a single meeting of the Ambazonia Self-Defence Council (also known as " Ambazonia Restoration Forces"), one of several rebel factions in the conflict, was attended by over fifty "Field Mar[shals], Generals, Colonel[s] and Captains".
At least 17 people were killed in protests following the declaration of independence, while fourteen Cameroonian troops were killed in attacks claimed by the Ambazonia Defence Forces. [41] The Cameroonian government stated that the declaration had no legal weight [ 42 ] and on 30 November 2017, the President of Cameroon signaled a harder line ...
This is a timeline of the Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon during 2020.. The Anglophone Crisis is an ongoing armed conflict in the Republic of Cameroon in Central Africa, where historically English-speaking Ambazonian separatists are seeking the independence of the former British trust territory of Southern Cameroons, which has been unified with Cameroon since 1961.
The Cameroonian Army killed a woman and her cousin over alleged links with separatists in the same town. [70] On May 7, 10 construction workers were abducted by alleged separatists in Ekombe, Southwest Region. [71] On May 8, the Cameroonian Army killed three people including two separatists in Bamenda. [72]