Cameroon

Violent conflicts in the anglophone Northwest and Southwest regions and in the Far North region of Cameroon have created severe humanitarian needs and mass forced displacement.

Health centre looted in Far North province
23-24 April 2025: In Medegouer locality, Koza commune, Mayo Tsanaga division, Far North province, the village health centre was looted by Boko Haram militia overnight. Solar panels from the centre were stolen. Source: Sembe TV. Return to Cameroon home page. more
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Aid in Danger

Humanitarian access in Cameroon is challenging. International humanitarian organisations in the Anglophone regions are increasingly affected by ongoing conflict. Insecurity has impeded access for aid workers working in the area, who are often subject to misinformation by people linked to the separatist movement. Aid programmes are disrupted or temporarily suspended due to insecurity.

In the Northwest and Southwest regions, aid workers have been kidnapped, sometimes in groups. There have been cases of kidnapped aid workers being killed in captivity. Aid convoys are also ambushed by armed groups. Data

Health Care

Insecurity Insight monitors attacks on health care in Cameroon, and based on its data, the Cameroon chapter (in English and French) of the 2024 Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition (SHCC) report Epidemic of Violence identified 48 incidents of violence against or obstruction of health care in Cameroon in 2024. In these incidents, 19 health workers were kidnapped, ten were arrested, and medical supplies were looted.

– Armed conflict, outbreaks of yellow fever and mpox, flooding, and mass displacement have increased demands for humanitarian assistance.

– Attacks on health care nearly doubled in the country’s Far North region between 2023 and 2024.

– Structural barriers, ongoing insecurity, and shortages of skilled health workers have contributed to Cameroon’s high maternal and perinatal mortality rates.

Download the report data. Explore the data visually using our interactive map Attacked and Threatened: Health Care at Risk

Education

In 2020, violence affecting education has increased, particularly in the Northwest and Southwest but also in in the Far North, Southwest, Centre and West regions.

Due to insecurity schools have been forced to close forcing schools to close and Cameroon Armed Forces deployed to protect teachers and students. In the Anglophone regions teachers have been forced to leave their job and seek safety elsewhere.

Both students and educators are targeted during attacks and schools stormed by armed groups.

Perpetrators include Ambazonian Separatist fighters in the Northwest and Southwest regions, Boko Haram, active in the Far North region, as well as other armed groups or bandits.

Teachers are kidnapped, killed and physically assaulted on their way to work or inside schools. Teachers are also arrested by state forces over accusation of links with separatists or in their involvement in the Anglophone crisis.

Students are shot, killed and injured in schools, on the way to school or in hostels close to universities. Data

IDPs and Refugees

Increasing insecurity and violence particularly in the Northwest, Southwest and Far North region has led to an increase in displaced persons. IDP camps in the Far North have been attacked by Boko Haram fighters who injured and killed residents and looted goods. Data

Social Media Monitoring

Insecurity Insight monitors and examines social media to identify when it is used to spread false information and incite violence against aid providers. In Cameroon international aid programmes in the conflict areas are subject to misinformation by people with links to the separatist movement and have come under attack as a result.