At least 15,000 Cameroonian refugees flee to Nigeria amid crackdown

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At least 15,000 Cameroonian refugees flee to Nigeria amid crackdown
Paul Carsten

ABUJA (Reuters) - More than 15,000 Cameroonian refugees have fled to Nigeria amid a crackdown on Anglophone separatists, the United Nations (UN) refugee agency and Nigerian government officials said on Thursday.

The once-fringe English-speaking movement in majority French-speaking Cameroon has gathered pace in the last few months after a military crackdown on protests, leading it to declare independence in October for a breakaway “Ambazonia” state it wants to create.

The move poses the biggest challenge yet to the 35-year rule of President Paul Biya, who will seek re-election this year, and the violent repression he has unleashed has driven thousands of people from English-speaking regions across the border into Nigeria.

Read more at: https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-cameroon-separatists-nigeria/at-least-15000-cameroonian-refugees-flee-to-nigeria-amid-crackdown-idUKKBN1F01PB

The central issue are Anglophone (English) speakers vs. the Francophone (French) speakers in Cameroon, a nation that is French speaking as its first language. There must be more to this.

In part, about secession of the English speaking area: http://africanarguments.org/2018/01/08/pushed-to-extremes-cameroons-anglophone-crisis-escalates/

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