Cameroun English speakers are living to avoid bullets and machetes

The US deaths in the Anglo-Saxon Cameroon conflict have recalculated the regions where separatists and soldiers fleeing the soldiers live in unfortunate circumstances.

Charles Wesco, an Indian Christian missionary, died of armed wounds in northern Bamenda on Tuesday. His eighth father is one of the few foreigners killed in the conflict two years ago and claimed a significant, but indefinite number of Cameroon lives.

The predominantly English-speaking cities of Bamenda and Buea, along the south-western border with the border with Nigeria, broke out in the epicenter of the conflict when the security forces stumbled on the protests of the frankrofa-led government Yaounde in late 2016.

Life is rough

Since then, the inhabitants of the two cities have largely left the southern cities, such as the banks of Douala, where they live on the edge of well-established communities. They survive, the arcizat sleeps in the jungle and sleeping in cardboard.

"Come on, there is no light," says Flora Malah Ngafi at the entrance to the Bonaber brick building, where he and his relatives found a 10-square-foot room after Bamenda.

"Sleep here, you can not shake, we're tight, and there's no light, fourteen people are sleeping in this room," DW says.

In a small room for women and girls there is only one mattress, cornered bags and a mosquito net.

"The night they throw the boxes out of the other rooms, and when they close this door, they have enough space to sleep," says Josfi.

"We're still dying"

Thirteen men and boys sleep in the adjoining room, full of debris and tile. The inhabitants of the abandoned building – seven families – share a consecrated kitchen. No toilet or bathroom.

Mrs. says that buckets are used and emptied in the well in the kitchen.

"If we allow us to live that way, we are still dying, the shots have killed many people, but all of these suffering can still kill us to help us with the government to return to unity and do something."

The conflict in the Anglo-Saxon regions demanded the lives of four thousand people and moved about 500,000 people, according to estimates by the Buea-Centered African Human Rights and Democracy Center. The organization forces the number of people living in Cameroon for more than 100,000 people to escape the conflict.

In September, two cousins ​​of Ekole Elvis Molibeta were shot down by soldiers when they came out of a forest where they fled the fighting between separatists and the army.

The 29-year-old says the whole family has disappeared from Buea six months ago.

"My immediate brothers, I do not know their whereabouts, their wives and children, I do not know where they are, my aunt and my uncle and my parents, I do not know where they are," he told DW.

The experience of Molybeta was a reality for many who were forced to flee their homes in the Anglo-Saxon regions.

Assistance is difficult and dangerous

Liwuh la Malale, a separatist fortress in the suburbs of Buea, has no hospital and shelter for women and children. II. II. Molinga describes himself as a war survivor.

"We need help from the international community," he says.

"We have a great deal of suffering and we need help, especially with foreign partners, if they can enter. Good faith humanitarian people can come in and see how they can get us a health center, especially for kids and schools."

However, assistance has become more and more difficult and dangerous.

Governor of the Northwestern Region of Cameroon Deben Tchoffo says armed groups have been attacking the area this week to prevent the reopening of the Bamenda University and the military rebounded.

Missionary Wesco was struck by two balls passing through the car's windscreen on which he traveled through Bamenda. They believe that he had caught the crossfire, only two weeks after he and his family arrived in the Anglo-Saxon region.