{"id":1686,"date":"2017-12-21T17:11:13","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T17:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=1686"},"modified":"2017-12-21T17:11:13","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T17:11:13","slug":"cameroons-anglophone-crisis-dialogue-remains-the-only-viable-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=1686","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon\u2019s Anglophone Crisis: Dialogue Remains the Only Viable Solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A recent spike of violence in Cameroon\u2019s Anglophone regions points to an emerging insurgency. To prevent more violence as the country enters a delicate election year, the government needs to kick start the political track to head off growing support for the insurgents. It should, with international support, start a dialogue with peaceful Anglophone leaders to discuss the country\u2019s decentralisation and governance.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>An Uprising in the Making<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In August 2017,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.crisisgroup.org\/africa\/central-africa\/cameroon\/250-cameroons-anglophone-crisis-crossroads\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Crisis Group sounded the alarm<\/a>\u00a0about the risk of an insurrection in Cameroon\u2019s Anglophone region unless a genuine dialogue, complete with strong measures to defuse tensions, was initiated. The crisis, which has been brewing for the past year, regrettably escalated in November when armed attacks were launched against defence forces. Since then, at least sixteen soldiers and police officers have been killed and some twenty injured during thirteen attacks led by separatists. This is four times the number of military victims killed by Boko Haram in the Far North during the same period.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crisisgroup.org\/africa\/central-africa\/cameroon\/cameroons-anglophone-crisis-dialogue-remains-only-viable-solution\"><strong>Read More<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Article originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crisisgroup.org\/africa\/central-africa\/cameroon\/cameroons-anglophone-crisis-dialogue-remains-only-viable-solution\">International Crisis Group<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent spike of violence in Cameroon\u2019s Anglophone regions points to an emerging insurgency. To prevent more violence as the country enters a delicate election year, the government needs to kick start the political track to head off growing support &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=1686\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[385,301,395,420],"class_list":["post-1686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","tag-boko-haram","tag-cameroon","tag-crisis","tag-violence"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1687,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686\/revisions\/1687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}