Pope at Angelus appeals for
peaceful political solutions for Cameroon
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| Displaced Cameroonians |
Pope Francis asks for prayers to accompany a fruitful
political dialogue in Cameroon.
By Linda Bordoni
Pope Francis has expressed his closeness to the
people of Cameroon and asked the faithful to pray for national
dialogue and lasting solutions for peace.
Addressing those present in St. Peter’s Square after the
Anglus prayer, the Pope said that on Monday, 30 September, a
meeting for National Dialogue is scheduled to begin in Cameroon “in order to
seek a solution to the difficult crisis that has been afflicting that country
for years”.
Fruitful dialogue
The Pope expressed his closeness to “the sufferings and the
hopes of the beloved Cameroonian people,” and invited everyone to pray so that
this dialogue might be fruitful and lead to peaceful, just and lasting
solutions, to everyone’s benefit”.
ccording to Cameroonian authorities the meeting, which will
last one week, is mainly aimed at finding a solution to the separatist
socio-political crisis in the two Anglophone regions which erupted in late
2016.
Anglophone regions
The national dialogue has been called by President Paul Biya
to end the conflict that has killed at least 2,000 people in the country’s
English-speaking Northwest and Southwest regions.
Scores of people have been killed in recent days and
electricity has been cut, mostly in English-speaking towns, when attackers set
fire to power distribution equipment.
The military has been deployed to replace teachers fleeing
the violence.
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