WILPF Cameroon calls on governmemnt to use dialogue in solving the Anglophone problem

Cameroon is facing again other difficult times marked by violence in the English speaking regions, notably the North West and South West. This situation has come to add to increasing insecurity created by the massive influx of refugees coming in from Nigeria and Central African Republic and the incursion of the terrorist sect BOKO HARAM which have greatly affected many regions of the country with a considerable impact on women and girls.

This new situation started with lawyers’ strike, after having several times asked for the harmonization of the linguistic system on certain legal instruments and a reflection on the present judicial system in these parts of the country that accommodate difficultly to the practice of law in the Anglo- Saxon system . After the lawyers came in the teachers in Bamenda, questionning the current anglophone educative system overshadowed by the french speaking system. The Buea University students joined the uprisings after the teachers, standing up for the non-payment of their scholarship award which resulted in some students not able to pay for their registration fees and for this reason, forced to pay a fine of 10000 FRS.