Cameroon’s Anglophone Crisis is an ongoing civil war in the Northwest and Southwest regions of that country. Starting as a low-scale insurgency in2016 , the conflict spread to most parts of the Anglophone regions.
Two and a half years after its return to the banana market in Cameroon, after a suspension of activities that lasted nearly two years, the Cameroon Development Cooperation (CDC) continues to pay a heavy price for the crisis.
In the banana segment, the CDC was only able to export 18,121 tons between January and November 2022, according to data compiled by the Cameroon Banana Association. By the end of November 2016, the year in which the Anglophone crisis broke out, which would later plague the operations of this public company, 102,255 tons of bananas had already been exported. This volume of exports corresponds to 5.6 times the volume of exports posted on 30 November 2022.
Worse, during the current year, while waiting for the December 2022 production, the monthly production of bananas of this agro-industrial unit has only crossed the 2,000 tons mark last April, while it often reached peaks of 12,000 tons per month in the past.
Source: journalducameroun.com