Thousands flee Cameroon anglophone regions in fear of violence: UN

People flee unrest in Cameroon in 2008. Thousands of Cameroonians have fled the country's anglophone provinces in August 2019 for fear of an escalation in violence, the United Nations and activists say. PHOTO | FILE | NATION MEDIA GROUP

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Thousands of Cameroonians have fled the country's anglophone provinces, the United Nations and activists said on Monday, after separatists sparked fears of an escalation in violence with a call for "dead city" protests.