Ahead of Cameroon’s National Day on 20 May, thousands of people are demonstrating this week, calling for peace and reconciliation in what a recent briefing paper referred to as a „bloody civil war“. The demonstrators, led by activists, traditional leaders and clerics, gathered in the capital, Yaounde, on Thursday, calling for an end to hate speech and the separatist conflict, as well as peace and reconciliation in the Central African country. The protests began in towns and villages across Cameroon on Monday (15 May), and on Thursday thousands of Christians from Cameroon’s Catholic, Presbyterian and Baptist churches joined the protests. “It is wickedness and the type of hate speech that destroys the country,“ Reverend Father Humphrey Tatah Mbui said. The violence has raged on despite domestic and international efforts to broker peace.

Source: The North Africa Journal May 20, 2023 06:46 UTC