Cameroon declared the world’s most neglected crisis

PLAGUED by conflict, Cameroon has overtaken Burkina Faso as the world’s “most neglected” humanitarian crisis

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hotspot, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) said yesterday in an annual report.

Every year, the Scandinavian NGO publishes a list of the 10 most neglected crises, based on three criteria for what is lacking: humanitarian funding, media attention and international political engagement.

“Three distinct and protracted crises have gripped Cameroon for over a decade: the long-running conflict with armed groups in the Lake Chad Basin, violence in the Northwest and Southwest regions” - where most of the country’s anglophone minority live - “and continued instability spilling over from the Central African Republic,” the NRC said in a statement.