‘Day of ballots and bullets’: Anglophone fears ahead of Cameroon’s election | Elections News

Bamenda, Cameroon – On the day of Cameroon’s last presidential election in October 2018, then-16-year-old Annie Nsalla* watched from her sitting-room window as Anglophone separatist fighters wreaked havoc in the streets of Bamenda, firing gunshots and threatening voters to deter them from reaching polling stations.

It was the first time an election was taking place since armed conflict erupted in the English-speaking minority North West and South West regions in 2016.