This is a timeline of the Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon during 2024.

The Anglophone Crisis is an ongoing armed conflict in the Republic of Cameroon in Central Africa, where historically English-speaking Ambazonian separatists are seeking the independence of the former British trust territory of Southern Cameroons, which was unified with Cameroon since 1961.

January

  • On January 1, writing from the Kondengui Central Prison, Sisiku Julius Ayuk Tabe (the first president of Ambazonia) called for an end of the Ambazonian leadership crisis and unity among separatist factions.[1]
  • On January 6, footage surfaced in which armed men claiming to be part of the Ambazonia Defence Forces (ADF) were torturing a civilian in Muyuka.[2]
  • On January 9, Cameroonian forces raided a separatist hideout in Ewai. Cameroon claimed that at least five separatists were killed, while the separatists claimed to have suffered three dead. Hundreds of people fled Ewai during the raid.[3]
  • On January 11, a gendarme officer shot a civilian dead in Mamfe.[4]
  • On January 13, separatist figthers shot and tortured a civilian in Menchum, after accusing him of passing information to the Cameroonian military.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Ambazonia leader calls for unity, peace between groups". Cameroon News Agency. Retrieved 2024-01-02.
  2. ↑ "Ambazonia Separatists Torture Civilian in Muyuka". Mimi Mefo. Retrieved 2024-01-06.
  3. ↑ "Ambazonia Separatists Torture Civilian in Muyuka". News Ghana. Retrieved 2024-01-11.
  4. ↑ "Outrage in Mamfe as Gendarme officer shoots woman dead". Mimi Mefo. Retrieved 2024-01-11.
  5. ↑ "Amba fighters brutally attack man for alleged collaboration with military". Mimi Mefo. Retrieved 2024-01-14.
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