Anglophone Crisis: Government intensifies crackdown on families allegedly Siding With Separatists

BY LUCY LIMA More and more families within the crisis-stricken Anglophone regions in Cameroon have resorted going underground after surviving arrest and torture from the military for allegedly collaborating and offering financial assistance to Separatist fighters commonly known as ‘Amba Boys’, who are fighting for the restoration of the independence of the statehood of former British Southern Cameroons, termed Ambazonia. Since the declaration of war by President Paul Biya on Separatists forces attempting to break Southern Cameroon away from the union in 2017, many innocent civilians have died as the war rages on, while several others have escaped to neighbouring…