Cameroon President calls for national talks on separatist crisis
Cameroonian President Paul Biya (C) looks towards supporters from his motorcade as he celebrates his re-election in Yaoundé on November 6, 2018. PHOTO | STR | AFP
Over the past two years, the francophone-majority country has been mired in the unrest which has left more than 2,000 people dead as English-speaking separatists demand independence in the Northwest and Southwest regions.
The current crisis began in late 2016, and escalated a year later when English-speaking militants symbolically declared the creation of the independent "Republic of Ambazonia" in the two regions.
President Biya has called for national dialogues presided over by Prime Minister Joseph Dion Ngute and bringing together representatives of numerous factions, including security forces and the armed separatists.
YAOUNDE,
Cameroon President Paul Biya on Tuesday announced that he intends to hold a major "national dialogue" later this month in a bid to put an end to the conflict between security forces and armed separatists from the anglophone minority in the west.
