Cameroon has topped the list of the world’s most neglected crises, with three distinct protracted humanitarian crises and the compounding risks posed by COVID-19 leaving 6.2 million people in urgent need of humanitarian aid across the country.  

In the country’s anglophone regions, a four-year violent conflict between separatist groups and government forces has disproportionately affected children. Education has been used as political tool in this conflict, including through enforced school boycotts and targeting of teachers and students, leading to the closure of 90% of primary schools and forcing 850,000 children out of school. Many children have been out of schools for four years, leaving them highly vulnerable to exploitation and abuse such as recruitment into armed forces, sexual violence and early marriage.