Here is why US Congress proponed Discussion of Anglophone crisis

The announcement was made by the Human Rights Committee of the lower house of the US Congress, which was to hold Thursday, a debate on the Anglophone crisis.

The Tom Lantos commission, specializing in human rights and freedoms issues at the US Congress, has announced the postponement of the "briefing" that was to hold Thursday  on the issue of human rights in the English-speaking regions of Cameroon.

According to this parliamentary committee, the reasons for this meeting lie in the observation made of the “deterioration of the human rights situation in the country”.

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On its website, the commission said: “Biya will be re-elected for another seven-year term in 2018, after having abolished the presidential term limit in 2008. The English-speaking minority in Cameroon represents between 13 and 25% of the population and lives mainly in the western part of the country. Tensions with the central government led by Francophones have increased since the end of 2016, when the government cracked down on an Anglophone protest movement. Last year, the situation escalated when an Anglophone faction symbolically declared the secession of the region and some Anglophone groups took up arms. While granting minor concessions, the government arrested dozens of militants and deployed soldiers to calm the unrest. According to the United Nations, some 21,000 refugees have fled to neighboring Nigeria in the past year.

To present this situation to the invited parliamentarians, the Human Rights Committee of the US Parliament brought specialists from Africa. These include the Deputy Director of Advocacy and Government Relations at Amnesty International Mr. Adotei Akwei, Freedom House Africa Director Jon Temin, International Crisis Group Africa Affairs Officer EJ Hogendoorn, and Cameroonian Patrice Nganang , professor at Stony Brook university in the United States.

The reasons for the postponement of the briefing of the Human Rights Commission of the American Congress were not communicated. No date was mentioned after this referral.

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