UNREST in Cameroon’s oilpatch and in northern regions buffeted by Islamist terror group Boko Haram will form the subject of discussion by members of the US Congress in a hearing shortly to be held to highlight growing violence before presidential elections this October.
Staffers from the House SubCommittee on Africa and the US State Department last weekend received oral presentations on human rights violations and met separatist activists from the Anglophone Southwest and Northwest Regions calling for an end to what they described as the “genocide and scorched earth policy” pursued by the government of head of state Paul Biya.
