Anglophone Crisis: Gov’t intensifies manhunt for alleged activists

By Ashu Tidings The trouble in the North West and South West Regions began in October 2016, when Lawyers and Teachers led protests calling for a two-state federation to preserve the Anglophone legal and education systems which they felt were being annihilated by the francophone- led central government. The military’s heavy-handed response to peaceful calls for greater autonomy prompted Anglophones to form militias popularly known as Ambazonia Defense Forces leading to an armed conflict the following year. Since 2017, the fighting has claimed over 6,000 lives in the Anglophone regions and displaced nearly 800,000 people, the majority of whom are…