The relative stability that Cameroon had enjoyed years ago has been deteriorating in recent times, following a path parallel to that of the rest of the region in which it is located, near the Sahel, the Lake Chad basin, in West Africa and in the Gulf of Guinea. A growing regional destabilization whose underlying factors coincide with those observed in Cameroon. Among them, a serious identity conflict between Anglophones and a Francophone State in the southwest, the growing threat of jihadist groups in the north, intercommunity fights and the dramatic effects on the population of adverse weather, which leaves cyclical waves of internally displaced people. , who are joined by those fleeing different conflicts and refugees from neighboring countries. Great governance challenges that a nonagenarian president must face, with more than 40 years in office, and an ossified political system, with a great concentration of power and systemic corruption.
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