Armed conflict in NW/SW: Gov’t re-launches manhunt for Anglophone activists

BY CYNTHIA AKUM The Anglophone crisis has been raging on now for close to six years. It should be recalled that Common Law Lawyers went to strike in October 2016 to protest government’s attempts to annihilate the Common Law practice in a constitutionally bilingual and bi-jural Cameroon. The strike lasted for over a year. Anglophone teachers in the country joined the strike on November 21, 2016 to uphold Anglo-Saxon values under threat in Cameroon’s two English-speaking regions. The government’s crackdown on Anglophone activists has since intensified with arbitrary arrests, detention, torture and extra-judicial killings becoming the new normal, human rights…