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Banana Link asks UK Government to mediate crisis in Cameroon

Wednesday, September 5th, 2018 in: News

In response to the serious political crisis in South West Cameroon, which has seen eleven banana plantations belonging to state-owned company Cameroon Development Corporation (CDC) closed because of insecurity in the region, and up to ten thousand jobs under imminent threat, Banana Link wrote to the UK government seeking their help to mediate the crisis in the UK Commonwealth country. 

Despite writing on 3 August, we have as yet received no reply to our letter, which has been reported recently in The Sun newspaper in Cameroon. 

Reproduced below is a copy of The Sun article, plus a copy of our letter to the UK Government. 

 

Read more on the situation in Cameroon
 
Cameroon: Anglophone crisis could cost 5,000 jobs
 
How fighting in Cameroon’s Anglophone areas is causing economic turmoil (Radio report)
 
Burning Cameroon: Images you’re not meant to see
 
‘Grave abuses’ as 180,000 people displaced in Cameroon
 
Cameroon, Killings and Destruction: Daily Brief

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