ABSTRACT
However, the country's stability is primarily threatened by an intra-state conflict stemming from separatist claims made by members of its anglophone minority, who have long denounced their political and economic marginalisation and cultural assimilation by the francophone majority, in Cameroon's Southwest and Northwest regions. However, in 1972 this system was abolished, leading to the centralisation of government in francophone Cameroon. Cameroon is also affected by intercommunal violence, mainly in the Northwest region, with tensions arising between Mbororo Fulani herders and indigenous farming communities, and in the Far North region, with conflict between Choa Arab herders and Musgum fishers and farmers. In July 2022, during his visit to Cameroon, France's President Emmanuel Macron declared that the conflict could be solved by fostering decentralisation and promoting dialogue between parties, but no channel for mediation was opened in the aftermath.
