Ethnic Clashes in Cameroon Aren’t About Religion
In early April, separatist fighters attacked houses belonging to members of the Mbororo, a seminomadic pastoralist group of Fulani or Fulbe lineage, in a village in the Northwest region of Cameroon. The attack resulted in a dozen homes being torched and at least as many people killed. One militia belonging to the immensely divided Anglophone separatist movement took responsibility, claiming that it targeted the house of an Mbororo who had been cooperating with the Cameroonian military.
The attack occurred only a month after the assassination of a traditional ruler from the Esu community, also in Northwest Cameroon. The attack was suspected to have been carried out by Mbororo youth and resulted in local Esu youths setting fire to homes, businesses, and farms belonging to the ethnic group.… Seguir leyendo »