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Cameroon is set to go to the polls next month for its presidential elections. Ahead of the vote, thousands of people are fleeing the country’s Anglophone regions because they fear increased violence. The Anglophone crisis has been dragging on for three years - and, writes Julius A Amin, it’s time that world leaders did more than pay lip service and actually took some action.
In the past three decades, post-Soviet countries have reached impressive levels of development. Thanks to their stronger economies, more students from the region have been seeking to study abroad. Maia Chankseliani says that the countries with more students studying in Europe and the US have also achieved higher levels of democratic progress.
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Cameroon is in crisis. It needs an intervention.
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Julius A. Amin, University of Dayton
It has been nearly three years since the Anglophone crisis began in Cameroon. The conflict has been vicious and it’s time for world leaders to act not just talk.
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Young people with Armenian flags protesting on the Republic Square.
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Maia Chankseliani, University of Oxford
Students from former Soviet countries who study in the US or Europe are more likely to develop liberal political views.
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