{"id":47469,"date":"2026-10-07T09:40:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T07:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=47469"},"modified":"2026-10-07T10:16:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T08:16:42","slug":"cameroon-marks-10-years-of-deadly-anglophone-conflict","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/cameroon-marks-10-years-of-deadly-anglophone-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon marks 10 years of deadly Anglophone conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Cameroon is marking 10<span class=\"x_spanWithBackgroundColor\"> years <\/span>since the start of a conflict in its English- regions that has killed thousands and displaced more than one and a half million people.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Anglophone crisis began in October 2016 and has had a particularly serious impact on children.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>There is still no definitive record of the number of people killed, with estimates ranging from 6 500 to more than.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Rights organisations, including the Centre for Human Rights and Democracy in Africa, have documented about 4 000 deaths between 2016 and 2023, with around half of the victims identified by name.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>More than 4 000 reported deaths are captured in a partial list released on the 10th anniversary of Cameroon&#8217;s Anglophone crisis.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Only about half of the victims have been identified by name, the rest remain unidentified.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The list includes civilians and combatants, though most of those documented are civilians.<\/p>\n<p>The figures are not presented as a definitive death toll.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Estimates of those killed over the past decade range from 6 500 to more than 10 000, reflecting the difficulty of documenting deaths in communities affected by insecurity and limited access.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13856,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-47469","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Cameroon is marking 10 years since the start of conflict","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47473,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47469\/revisions\/47473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=47469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}