{"id":30745,"date":"2018-09-10T08:18:26","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T08:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/?p=30745"},"modified":"2018-09-10T08:18:26","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T08:18:26","slug":"cameroon-bishops-call-for-an-end-to-fighting-so-school-can-resume-acn-malta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2018\/09\/10\/cameroon-bishops-call-for-an-end-to-fighting-so-school-can-resume-acn-malta\/","title":{"rendered":"CAMEROON: Bishops call for an end to fighting so school can resume &#8211; ACN Malta"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>CAMEROON<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Bishops call for an end to fighting so school can resume<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As children in Cameroon are getting ready to start a new school year, \u00a0the bishops of the country\u2019s strife-torn English-speaking regions are calling for an end to hostilities so young people can get an education. All six bishops of the Bamenda Ecclesiastical Province have jointly issued \u201ca 9-Point Consolidation Message\u201d to Christians, in which they make a strong appeal for peace.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Catholic bishops said \u201cThe school boycott for the past two years with another threat of a third year has had a deeply negative impact,\u201d adding that it would be \u201csuicidal\u201d to continue denying children their right to education. They said only an irresponsible society would compromise the irrevocable right of children to education. The bishops pointed out that wealthier people could still afford to educate their children in French-speaking Cameroon or abroad<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">However,\u00a0 poor children often end up joining rebel groups or becoming thieves or prostitutes. The school boycott dates back to October 2016, when lawyers and teachers went on strike in the two English-speaking regions of Cameroon over what they saw as the erosion of their educational and legal systems by the country&#8217;s Francophone-dominated administration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Teachers in Anglophone regions raised a number of concerns including:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">increasingly prominent use of French in schools run in the Anglo-Saxon tradition<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">discrimination against Anglophone students in admission to professional schools<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">use of French-style exams &#8211; usually poorly translated into English &#8211; in technical schools, leading to a high failure rate among Anglophone students<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">francophonisation of Anglophone universities.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Lawyers also demonstrated against the increasing use of French in the country\u2019s common law courts.\u00a0 Protests developed into a full-scale armed rebellion, with separatists in Cameroon\u2019s Anglophone regions calling for an independent state of \u00a0\u201cAmbazonia\u201d. As one of their strategies,\u00a0Ambazonian leaders called for the boycott of schools, claiming they were forcing the French language on locals. This led to a spate of arson attacks in which hundreds of schools were burned down.\u00a0 Many other schools in the area have been also been abandoned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ambazonia leaders&#8217; response to the Bishops&#8217; Message sent mixed signals. While recognising the right of parents to educate their children, the Ambazonia Defense Forces say they are unable to guarantee the children\u2019s safety.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>ACN Malta<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAMEROON Bishops call for an end to fighting so school can resume \u00a0 As children in Cameroon are getting ready to start a new school year, \u00a0the bishops of the country\u2019s strife-torn English-speaking regions are calling for an end to hostilities so young people can get an education. 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