Anglophone crisis: More youths under threat to join separatist fighters as crisis persists

By CYNTHIA AKUM More and more youths in the North West and South West regions of Cameroon are increasingly being threatened and coerced to join separatist fighters commonly called “Amba boys” as tension heightens in the two restive English speaking regions. Reports are becoming very prevalent of youths who are either molested, flogged, or threatened with deaths if they don’t joined the Amba boys, fighting for a separate state termed Ambazonia. What has become known as the Anglophone crisis, started as a strike action in November 2016 by lawyers and teachers in the North West and South West regions. The…