{"id":205293,"date":"2025-08-23T05:35:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T03:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroons-conflict-is-part-of-a-bigger-trend-negotiations-are-losing-ground-to-military-solutions\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T05:35:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T03:35:00","slug":"cameroons-conflict-is-part-of-a-bigger-trend-negotiations-are-losing-ground-to-military-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroons-conflict-is-part-of-a-bigger-trend-negotiations-are-losing-ground-to-military-solutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon&#8217;s Conflict Is Part of a Bigger Trend &#8211; Negotiations Are Losing Ground to Military Solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"50\">In central Africa, a violent conflict has been unfolding for nearly eight years. What began in 2016 as <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/cameroons-anglophone-conflict-has-lasted-for-six-years-what-citizens-say-about-how-to-end-it-208381\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">peaceful protests<\/a> by lawyers and teachers against the increasing &#8220;francophonisation&#8221; of the legal and education systems in Cameroon&#8217;s anglophone regions quickly escalated into an armed conflict between separatist groups and government forces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"61\">It has come at a devastating human cost. With both sides of the civil war using education as a weapon, over 700,000 children have been forced out of school&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508200008.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Cameroon\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/cameroon\/\">Cameroon<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In central Africa, a violent conflict has been unfolding for nearly eight years. What began in 2016 as peaceful protests by lawyers and teachers against the increasing &#8220;francophonisation&#8221; of the legal and education systems in Cameroon&#8217;s anglophone regions quickly escalated into an armed conflict between separatist groups and government forces. It has come at a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":205294,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660147:fb86f64933fb6824a46d4fa9ad60f3d5:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[258,256,11292,377,4331,2444,6914,10575,3318,3762,257,7140,16100,254,10166],"class_list":["post-205293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bigger","tag-cameroon-news","tag-cameroons","tag-conflict","tag-ground","tag-losing","tag-military","tag-negotiations","tag-news","tag-part","tag-solutions","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trend"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660147:fb86f64933fb6824a46d4fa9ad60f3d5:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}