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The ramification of Cameroon’s Anglophone crisis: conceptual analysis of a looming “Complex Disaster Emergency”
One of Africa’s newest struggles for liberation: Cameroon’s Anglophone crisis, which emerged from legal and education grievances in 2016, rapidly escalated into a secessionist political conflict that is threatening the unity of the country, with potential to degenerate into a complex emergency. In a...
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description | One of Africa’s newest struggles for liberation: Cameroon’s Anglophone crisis, which emerged from legal and education grievances in 2016, rapidly escalated into a secessionist political conflict that is threatening the unity of the country, with potential to degenerate into a complex emergency. In an exploratory, qualitative, analytical, and descriptive case study research tradition involving document/content analysis, we apply the Robert Strauss Centre’s complex emergency framework to investigate the potential of the Anglophone crisis, whose ramifications lead us to consider it an acute complex emergency. Our contention is based on the fact that 72.5% of the variables in all the complex emergencies fall within the relevant to extremely relevant ranking criteria. Furthermore, the establishment of a nexus between the Anglophone crisis and a natural hazard-induced disaster suggest an escalation of the crisis to an unbearable level. Using the high probability of a novel eruption at Mt. Cameroon coupled with the eminent threat of the spread of the COVID-19 virus, we contend that unless otherwise, the crisis has immense potential to cumulatively evolve into a “Complex Disaster Emergency” (CDE) in the Anglophone regions of Cameroon. Amidst the existential challenges in providing humanitarian assistance in the conflict region, and by applying the Robert Strauss Centre’s complex emergency framework, this article concludes with an early warning for an impending CDE that could heighten humanitarian challenges unless there is foresight and goodwill by relevant actors to immediately commence a process of adequate contingency planning. |
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spelling | pubmed-87845872022-01-24 The ramification of Cameroon’s Anglophone crisis: conceptual analysis of a looming “Complex Disaster Emergency” Bang, Henry Ngenyam Balgah, Roland Azibo Int J Humanitarian Action Research Article One of Africa’s newest struggles for liberation: Cameroon’s Anglophone crisis, which emerged from legal and education grievances in 2016, rapidly escalated into a secessionist political conflict that is threatening the unity of the country, with potential to degenerate into a complex emergency. In an exploratory, qualitative, analytical, and descriptive case study research tradition involving document/content analysis, we apply the Robert Strauss Centre’s complex emergency framework to investigate the potential of the Anglophone crisis, whose ramifications lead us to consider it an acute complex emergency. Our contention is based on the fact that 72.5% of the variables in all the complex emergencies fall within the relevant to extremely relevant ranking criteria. Furthermore, the establishment of a nexus between the Anglophone crisis and a natural hazard-induced disaster suggest an escalation of the crisis to an unbearable level. Using the high probability of a novel eruption at Mt. Cameroon coupled with the eminent threat of the spread of the COVID-19 virus, we contend that unless otherwise, the crisis has immense potential to cumulatively evolve into a “Complex Disaster Emergency” (CDE) in the Anglophone regions of Cameroon. Amidst the existential challenges in providing humanitarian assistance in the conflict region, and by applying the Robert Strauss Centre’s complex emergency framework, this article concludes with an early warning for an impending CDE that could heighten humanitarian challenges unless there is foresight and goodwill by relevant actors to immediately commence a process of adequate contingency planning. Springer International Publishing 2022-01-24 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC8784587/ /pubmed/37519838 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41018-022-00114-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Research Article Bang, Henry Ngenyam Balgah, Roland Azibo The ramification of Cameroon’s Anglophone crisis: conceptual analysis of a looming “Complex Disaster Emergency” |
title | The ramification of Cameroon’s Anglophone crisis: conceptual analysis of a looming “Complex Disaster Emergency” |
title_full | The ramification of Cameroon’s Anglophone crisis: conceptual analysis of a looming “Complex Disaster Emergency” |
title_fullStr | The ramification of Cameroon’s Anglophone crisis: conceptual analysis of a looming “Complex Disaster Emergency” |
title_full_unstemmed | The ramification of Cameroon’s Anglophone crisis: conceptual analysis of a looming “Complex Disaster Emergency” |
title_short | The ramification of Cameroon’s Anglophone crisis: conceptual analysis of a looming “Complex Disaster Emergency” |
title_sort | ramification of cameroon’s anglophone crisis: conceptual analysis of a looming “complex disaster emergency” |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8784587/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37519838 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41018-022-00114-1 |
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