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Jan Egeland, Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council says the crisis in the North West and South West Regions of Cameroon is the largest emergency of recent years, but the world shockingly appears to be maintaining a suspicious silence.
He told the BBC that France, the United Kingdom, the United States and Germany, all having a past
"Stop the violence, start talking, start negotiating and reopening of schools, protection of hospitals that has been attacked. "Egeland told the BBC."
The Norwegian Refugee Council says it has suffered in the crisis hit areas.
His words: "I was in Buea on a Humanitarian Mission." I put it in their minds, families who were torched and their villages were torched. displaced. "The estimate is that all together, this senseless conflict has been displaced as many as half a million civilian people, mostly women and children. And most of them are out in the open. Others have gone to the towns where we can help.
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Egeland insists that after the effects of War in Darfur, Sudan, the situation in Cameroon stands out as the worst yet. "I do not know the word for the sake of my own sake." "I have been shocked by the amount of my suffering. this conflict, "Egeland said.
He says with more than a million children out of school, and over half a million fleeing their homes, dialogue and negotiations.
Hear him: "Let me give you one example, one million children are now out of school because of a conflict over the educational system, their curriculum, the teachers etc. You know, disagree on political issues. " The Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council says the situation in Cameroon is screaming for a political response. But the silence is deafening. Somehow, one is not hearing the outrage when it comes to the situation in Darfur.
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"No indeed! There is a striking contrast to the global outrage of what happened in Darfur and we are underfunded." 10% of the humanitarian appeal of the United Nations and Nongovernmental Organizations is funded, so 90% of the funding is not there Which are the ones who are still under the influence, they are underfunded, they are underfunded, there are very few witnesses, there are very few He said, "Appeal for humanitarian aid, but it is one of the largest emergencies of recent years. Egeland, somebody who is known to hold back his punches condemned the excesses of the belligerents.
"The rebels are obviously committing atrocities and we hope that they will be able to do that." But what about the government of Cameroon? Anglophone regions? " the BBC journalist asked Egeland.
His response: "All sides are committing crimes in this war. "People say the French government is backing the Biya regime and allows this regime to continue with its intransigence when it could be negotiating," the journalist quizzed further.
To this, Egeland called on the international community, especially the European powers who had a romance with Cameroon to step into a matter of urgency.
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