What is the meaning of Special Status Regions?

Questions and Answers for the Media and General Public Yaoundé & Buea, Saturday, 16 November 2019 Authors: Barrister Paul Simo Dr Eric-Adol Gatsi Tazo Dedicated to all victims of the crisis in the Northwest and Southwest regions since 2016 1. What does Special Status mean? Special Status means Special Regional Autonomy. It means that in a country that has got several regions (such as Cameroon’s 10), some of those Regions (Northwest, Southwest) acquire certain powers, functions, or competencies that are not granted to the rest of the Regions of the country. This is typically done because of historical specificities of…