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Cameroon is bracing for parliamentary and municipal elections with security concerns high in the separatist Anglophone region of the country. Attacks by militants and a boycott of the last presidential elections in 2018 saw turnout as low as 5 percent in the region. Separatists launced an insurgency in the Anglophone region in 2017. Since then they've been fighting the government in a conflict that has claimed some 3000 lives and forced hundreds of thousands to flee their homes. In December 2019 the Cameroon government offered a special status to the country’s minority English speaking regions. However, this has not appeased Anglophone separatist militias who have been seeking to create a breakaway state they call Ambazonia. The separatists have put in place their own laws in the region and have outlawed government-organized activities like education and elections. Local elections are due to hold on Sunday but security remains a big challenge in the English-speaking regions.
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