Cameroon English schools close as anglophone crisis intensifies
Children in Cameroon's English-speaking regions should be heading to school. But they've had to stay home over a boycott against the government's treatment of English speakers.
It's back to school time in Cameroon. But in English-speaking regions, children are staying home due to a general strike by English-speaking activists.
English speakers, who make up less than a fifth of the country's 23 million people, say they are marginalised and discriminated against by the French-speaking majority.
Activists have called for English speakers to boycott schools, saying it's the only way they can get the government's attention.
But not everyone agrees that a boycott that keeps children out of school is the best way to address the problem.
TRT World's Sara Firth Reports.