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Cameroon’s Conflict: The Tragedy of Remote Journalism and Forgotten Voices
By a Cameroonian Entertainment & Investigative Journalist (Name withheld for safety reasons)
When international media focus on Cameroon, they often reduce the situation to a binary civil war, a cold clash between a regular army and separatist groups. But this surface-level reading is an insult to the reality on the ground. It conceals the root causes, ignores the spiral of violence, and renders invisible the true victims: the civilian population, taken hostage at the heart of a multifaceted chaos.
To understand this conflict, the general reader must first understand the geopolitical and historical landscape of Cameroon, a Central African nation ruled for over four decades by the 93-year-old President Paul Biya, whose regime remains a key strategic ally to Western powers like France.
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