Witch-hunting, scores-settling rocks Cameroon’s North-West, South-West regions as armed conflict rages on

By Sandra Lum As the armed conflict in Cameroon’s North West and South West regions rages on, political witch-hunting and scores-settling has taken centre stage. Many are families that now fear for the safety of their relatives as some politicians are using the separatist conflict as a cover to victimize their political rivals. When Common Law Lawyers took to the streets in October 2016, it was to protest government attempts to annihilate the common law system in a constitutionally bilingual, bi-jural and bicultural Cameroon. On 21 November 2016, Anglophone teachers in the country joined the strike to uphold Anglo-Saxon values…