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Cameroon's Aid Workers Welcome High Profile Calls for COVID-19 Cease-fire

Moki Edwin Kindzeka

   YAOUNDE - Cameroonian aid and health workers have welcomed calls by
   Nobel Peace laureates and former heads of state for a COVID-19
   cease-fire in the country's troubled western regions.'¯Fighting between
   Cameroon's military and rebels has forced over a thousand health and
   aid workers to flee, putting tens of thousands of patients at risk in
   the middle of the pandemic.'¯Cameroon has so far confirmed 12,321
   infections and 309 deaths from the virus.

   Nobel Prize laureates calling for a COVID-19 cease-fire in Cameroon
   include Muhammad Yunus, the Bangladeshi banker to the poor, and the
   former presidents of East Timor, José Ramos-Horta, and South Africa,
   FW de Klerk.

   They're part of the [1]Global Campaign for Peace and Justice in
   Cameroon, which on Monday urged the U.N. Security Council and the
   African Union to push for an end to the fighting.

   The group of 15, which includes three former U.S. ambassadors to
   Cameroon, wants a truce between the military and anglophone rebels in
   the troubled western regions so health workers can safely stop the
   virus.

   Cameroon's health workers, hundreds of whom have fled insecurity in the
   region, welcomed the high-profile support.

References

   1. https://cameroonpeacejustice.ca/

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