Editing Secession (section)

===Cameroon===
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In October 2017, [[Ambazonia]] declared its independence from [[Cameroon]]. Less than a month beforehand, tensions had escalated into [[Anglophone Crisis|open warfare]] between separatists and the [[Cameroon Armed Forces]].
The conflict, known as the "Anglophone Crisis", is deeply rooted in the October 1, 1961 incomplete decolonization of the former [[Southern Cameroons|British Southern Cameroons]] (UNGA Resolution 1608). On January 1, 1960, [[French Cameroon]] was granted independence from France as the Republic of Cameroon and was admitted into the United Nations. The more advanced democratic and self-ruling people of [[British Cameroon]] were instead limited to two choices. Through a UN [[Referendum|plebiscite]], they were directed to either join the federation of [[Nigeria]] or the independent Republic of Cameroon as a federation of two equal states. While the Northern Cameroons voted to join Nigeria, the Southern Cameroons voted to integrate into the Republic of Cameroon, but they did so without a formal Treaty of Union on record at the UN. In 1972, Cameroon used its majority population to abolish the federation and implement a system which resulted in the occupation of the former South Cameroons territory by French-speaking Cameroon administrators. In 1984, Cameroon heightened tensions by returning to its name at independence, "Republic of Cameroun", which did not include the territory of the former British Southern Cameroons or Ambazonia. 
For more than fifty years the English-speaking people of the Former British Southern Cameroons made multiple attempts both nationally and internationally to get the Cameroon government to address these issues and possibly return to the previously agreed federation at independence. In 2016, after all these attempts failed, Cameroon engaged in a military crackdown, including cutting the internet in the English-speaking regions. In response, the people of Southern Cameroon declared on October 1, 2017, the restoration of their UN state of Southern Cameroons, which they called the "[[Federal Republic of Ambazonia]]".