Cameroon Anglophone Conflict: Female IDPs Unvail Harrowing Tales Of Sexual Harassment, Discrimination From Landlords In Host Communities
By Colbert Gwain in Bamenda. image courtesy of africainharlem. nyc Frida Nain,(not her real names), 30, had escaped from Belo, Boyo division, one of the epicenters of the deadly separatist armed conflict in the North West Region, after clashes between government forces and separatist fighters saw her home go up in flames, early 2018. Scampering for safety, she decided to relocate to Bamenda, the Region’s capital where things were seemingly more stable. But that was only going to be the beginning of her travails in her new life as an Internally Displaced Person,( IDP). ” I was well received when I first arrived and managed to secure a one-room house at Ntamulung in Bamenda,” the desperately-looking lady told this investigative reporter. “The landlord and neighbours were so empathetic about what had happened to me back in my native Belo ,” she said. “ The land lord intimated that we were a family and that I could pay rents of FCFA 10,000 per month anytime I stumbled on something. The wel...