The Senior Associate and Regional Director for West and Central Africa at the National Democratic Institute, NDI, US-based good governance champion and democratisation expert, Dr Christopher Fomunyoh Reiterates need to address root causes
On the deepening crisis in the Southern Cameroons – Ambazonia, styled North West and South West regions by the annexationist French Cameroon Dr Fomunyoh said the solution does not lie on the use of force.
He drummed the need for dialogue and negotiations to address the legitimate grievances of Anglophones from their roots.
“I still feel that until we sit around the table and deal with the root causes, until we bring into the room the people who have been the most aggrieved and most impacted by this conflict, until we give them a voice to speak for themselves and say precisely what it is they want, we are not going to be able to resolve this crisis,” he stated.
Dr Fomunyoh added that: “…no government in the world has ever benefited from a frozen conflict with its citizenry. We should not assume that even if the guns stopped firing, the conflict would have been resolved”.
Editor’s note
The annexationist regime in Yaounde of the republic of Cameroon has been summoned equally at the ICC for crimes against humanity committed by its military against Southern Cameroonians – Ambazonians who have suffered under the Yaounde repressive regime for over six decades and on whom the genocidal 93 year old dictator Paul Biya declared a senseless war in 2017 that has claimed close to 60.000 innocent lives, burnt hundreds of villages, homes, and properties, sent more than a million into involuntary exile as refugees in neighbouring countries like Nigeria, Ghana, others going across the oceans to the United States of America, Europe and thousands languishing in jails across the Cameroons. It is the cry of these-peace loving and justice seeking people of the Southern Cameroons – Ambazonia that on taking office this January 20, 2025, President Donald Trump being a god fearing leader should tackle the plight of these people who have suffered in bondage for 64 years and free them from captivity.
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