Cameroon’s Prime Minister Joseph Dion Ngute on Wednesday announced a plan by the government to rehabilitate the two English-speaking regions of the country that have been ravaged by an armed conflict for three years.
“Among the tasks is the rehabilitation of about 350 schools, 115 health centres, 40 bridges, 400 water points, 600 kilometers of rural roads, 45 markets, 25,000 meters of farmland, livestock and re-establishment of close to 300,000 personal documents lost,” Ngute said in the capital, Yaounde during a ceremony to install members of a commission charged to implement the plan.
He said, works will immediately begin in areas “where there is stability and peace.”
Cameroon is implementing the program in partnership with United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
“We will implement the plan according to UNDP rules and regulations. We want to implement this plan in all accountability, transparency and efficiency,” Stalon Jean-luc, Resident Representative of UNDP Cameroon told reporters during the ceremony.
It is unclear how long the implementation process of the plan will last.
Since 2017, armed separatists in the Anglophone regions of Northwest and Southwest have been clashing with government forces in a bid to establish an independent nation they called “Ambazonia”.
About 700,000 people have been displaced by the conflict internally and others fled to neighbouring Nigeria, according to the United Nations. Enditem
