Cameroon tops the list of the world’s most neglected crises, with three protracted humanitarian crises and the compounding risks of 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, through enforced school boycotts and targeting of teachers and students. This has led to the closure of 90% of elementary schools and forced 850,000 children out of school. Many children have now been out of school for as many as four years, leaving them highly vulnerable to exploitation and abuse such as recruitment into armed forces, sexual violence and early marriage.