Elsewhere, and particularly following the October 2018 presidential election, ethnic discourse is heightening political tensions on- and offline. Nascent ethnic clashes along the border with Chad have displaced thousands too. The war with Boko Haram, centred in the Far North, has killed over 3,000 Cameroonians, displaced about 250,000 and triggered the rise of vigilante self-defence groups. The country also faces a reinvigorated jihadist insurgency with deadly attacks in the Lake Chad area. According to the UN, 2.2 million of the Anglophone regions’ four million people need humanitarian support while about 600,000 children have been deprived of effective schooling because of the conflict. It has displaced 765,000 people, of whom over 70,000 are refugees in Nigeria. The bigger conflict, between the government and separatists from the English-speaking minority, started in 2017 and has killed over 6,000 people. Cameroon is beset with two major violent conflicts but also faces rising ethno-political tensions on- and offline.
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