Cameroon’s government expressed that it had not requested any country to mediate in its problem with Anglophone separatists, although Canada said it had received a demand to perform a peace process.
Canada’s foreign ministry said it had accepted a mandate to facilitate talks between Cameroonian authorities and some separatist factions in English-speaking regions to resolve a conflict that has killed more than 6,000 people since 2017.
On the other hand, a report did not mention Canada directly, the Cameroonian government said it had not “entrusted any foreign country or outside entity with a role of mediator or facilitator to resolve the crisis”.
A spokesman for the English-speaking separatists, who are attempting to create a breakaway state called Ambazonia in English-speaking minority regions, said they carried a note of the government’s tardy report but would not remark further.