Anywhere in the world, a conflict arises, there are three common things that can exterior. Governments and institutes can mediate at diplomatic levels and put political pressure through proposals or restrictions. Assistance organizations can reduce the plight of the affected citizen population, mostly funded by donations or government fines. And the media can help create its reporting, through necessary public pressure.
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), the largest humanitarian organization in the Scandinavian country, systematically examines the struggles around the world at the origin of those three criteria. NRC has just published annual reportAmong the most neglected performance crises in the world. Eight out of 10 of those crises are coming out on the continent of African.
Cameron tops the list, followed by Ethiopia, Mozambique, Burkina Faso, Mali, Uganda, Iran, Dr. Congo, Honduras and Somalia.
Cameron is a case study in global neglect, shamefully scoring less on all three criteria, NRC spokesperson Laila Matar told DW. The Central African country was on the list over the last few years, the most recently undesirable top in 2019.
What crisis does Cameron affect?
The NRC keeps Cameron in the media meditation category of “neglected”. At the same time, politics scores a maximum of 30 points to solve the struggle, and only 45% of the required assistance is provided only 45%.
According to NRC, more than 1.1 million people are interrupted. In addition, there are 480,000 refugees from other countries, most of them from the Central African Republic.
Cameron is a home of two conflicts which are geographically and politically different from each other. Since 2017, the western part of the country has been affected by a civil war, the root cause of which is more than a century.
After the first world, the former German colony was divided into British and French administrative areas. To date, English is mainly spoken in two western regions, northwest and southwest.
Radical forces are fighting for separation from Cameron’s large, Frankone part and have been announced in 2017 for an independent Republic. Time and then, there are attacks or clashes with the army, which already claim the lives of thousands of people.
This is mainly the second, major conflict, however, has recently intensified. Lake Chad region, including the remote north of Cameron, is operated beyond the borders by the Islamic terrorist.
What is happening in the north of Cameron?
In the Logon-Ahari district of Cameroon, and in the state of Borno, Nigeria, the institute for security study (ISS) Chad-based specialist Raymdji Hinathi said that this apostle could be seen. In March 2025 alone, there were more than 10 amazing attacks on military barracks with the attackers, with a lot of military equipment, weapons and sometimes cars were taken away, Hinthi also told DW.
In the region, the expert said, Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram was divided into two groups. ISWAP (Islamic State West Africa province), who chased a “a kind of heart-and-mind-vanished strategy”, “tried to establish state-like structures in the occupied AEA and” trying some social services, but most of the time hunts in terms of expansion and illegal tax collection on communities. ,
The second faction is Jas (people are committed to propaganda and jihad for the teachings of the Prophet). Hinathy added its approach to military, officials and even citizens with indiscriminate violence. He said that there was no way for the local people, who are sometimes forced to cooperate with one of the groups, pay taxes and contribute to their objectives to save their own lives.
One of the hundreds of thousands of victims: Howa
Search practices play an important role in running hundreds of thousands of people from their homes, gymnastics in a person who displays them internal. According to NRC, only 30% of official refugees are living in camps. The majority are left for their own tools, living in uncertain conditions.
One of them is Haua, a woman who spoke to DW in the late 2024 in the northern city of Maraua. At that time, 39 -year -old bees lived in Maraua for a year. Her husband was arrested and one of her son-in-law was killed by an Islamic terrorist, who left Haua, who was completely responsible for eight children and two grandchildren.
“Children do not go to school, I do not have money to pay for their education. I know where my husband is imprisoned,” she told DW. “It is about four days ago that children and I had my last meal. When I begs for money on the road, they scare me.”
She was rarely able to earn some money, washing other people.
How can the situation be improved?
To achieve changes that benefit the local population, the security situation must improve. For years already, the countries of the Lake Chad region have been collaborating during the Joint military mission, which target the Islamic terrorists on the borders.
Beyond the military agenda, ISS ‘Hinthi said, those countries had established the “regional stabilization strategy”.
But after more than a decade of the fight against Boko Haram, the analyst said, “One of the main challenges was a kind of fatigue in this regional cooperation.”
In its report, NRC writes that Cameron for 2025, without fresh political, humanitarian or media attention, was “even Blekar”.
Speaking to DW, NRC spokesman Laila Matar said countries like the US, Britain, France and Germany had reduced their budget for development and humanitarian aid, invested in defense instead. He said that three to four days of last year’s global military expenses would be sufficient to cover the lack of entry into humanitarian funding for the whole year.
“So with politics, the thesis neglected crisis will be resolved,” said peas.
Josephin Mahachi and Elizabeth Essen contradicts for this article. It was originally written in German.
