Cameroon: How long will the union hold?

New African | July 1, 2002| | Copyright

ECONOMY IN BRIEF

Discontent between English-- speaking and French-speaking Cameroonians has been simmering for 41 years right after the British-administered Southern Cameroon decided to join the French-speaking La Republique du Cameroun and the country became the United Republic of Cameroon on 2 June 1972 - but united more in name than reality.

The discord resurfaced on 20 May, the independence day. As the majority celebrated, English-- speaking separatists urged fellow Anglophones, who make 25% of Cameroon's 15 million population, to consider it a day of mourning for the loss of their ...

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