This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.One of the world’s leading humanitarian agencies is withdrawing from a conflict-torn region of Cameroon after the government banned it from providing health care to thousands of people who have no other care.
Cameroon’s authoritarian government ordered MSF to suspend its activities in the North-West Region last December, after a series of accusations that the humanitarian agency was supporting local armed groups in the region. MSF repeatedly denied the allegations over several months of efforts to overturn the suspension.
In conflict zones, humanitarian agencies are often the only source of medical services for many people. In Cameroon’s anglophone regions, an estimated one-fifth of all health facilities have stopped functioning because of the crisis. In a report this week, Human Rights Watch said the recent surge of battles between government forces and armed separatists has led to a rise in abuses by both sides. In a two-day period in early June, for example, Cameroonian security forces killed two civilians, raped a 53-year-old woman, and destroyed and looted at least 33 homes and shops, the report said. It described how the security forces had ransacked and desecrated the palace of a traditional leader in one village.
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