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Cameroon's 'forgotten' war leaves refugees in limbo
Cameroon (AFP/Valentina BRESCHI)
Valentina BRESCHI
Camille MALPLAT
Thu, March 3, 2022, 2:01 AM·4 min read
Three years ago, Akor Pelkings fled his home in western Cameroon, where a conflict raged between the security forces and rebels fighting for an independent state.
Today, the 25-year-old is one of 70,000 Cameroonian refugees in Nigeria, wondering in despair when they can return.
Yet they in turn are among a million people uprooted by a conflict which is now in its fifth year yet remains largely forgotten -- even unknown -- in the rest of the world.
The violence erupted in 2017, when militants declared an independent state in Cameroon's Northwest and Southwest regions, home to most of the anglophone minority in the majority French-speaking country.
Both the separatists and government forces have been accused of atrocities in the fighting, which according to the International Crisis Group (ICG) has killed more than 6,000 people.
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