US Congressional to Mr Biya: “Dear President Biya the situation is not getting better, as your government asserts: it is getting worse.”

As members ofthe U.S. Congress, we are writing to express our deep concern over the ongoing insecurity and violence in the predominantly Anglophone Northwest and Southwest Regions of Cameroon. Conflict between your security forces and non-state armed groups has led to an everincreasing number of casualties and of internally displaced persons and refugees, and has kept hundreds ofthousands of children out of school for going on a third year in a row. These factors are having devastating social, political, and economic impacts on the regions, on the country itself, and more broadly in Central and West Africa. The situation is not getting better, as your government asserts: it is getting worse.