Cameroon: A priest and the fight for more education | DW Documentary
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- In northwestern Cameroon, English-speaking separatists are fighting soldiers of the French-speaking government and schools are especially hard-hit. Pastor Roland Arrey wants to counter this with a recreation center that also teaches classes.
The conflict in Cameroon is rooted in the country's colonial past. Cameroon was a German colony from 1884 until during World War I, when Great Britain and France occupied the land and divided it between themselves - and installed two completely different legal and educational systems.
With independence in 1960, the new government was supposed to grant both parts of the country as much autonomy within the framework of a federal structure as possible.
But the English-speaking northwest felt increasingly oppressed. Over the last few years, the conflict has become increasingly violent, and hundreds of thousands of people are currently fleeing. But the international community is hardly taking any notice.
Schools, in particular, are repeatedly under attack. The separatists see them as a way for the government to maintain its power, although they also claim that government troops are responsible for the attacks. For Cameroon's children, the situation is disastrous: In many parts of the northwest, there are no more classes.
In the village of Numba, pastor Roland Arrey wants to change this - even in the face of repeated death threats.
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Need more people like Pastor Roland Arrey
He is a catholic priest not a pastor🙄
Praying 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 for the priest and all the community and for every family and for the education for all children.. May the blood of our lord Jesus protect them all from all evil.
Brave hearts, trying to make a better place
Much respect from Kenya. We need more of such people in the world.
DW does a good job of bringing this up yet again. The world needs to unite to stop such horror stories and turn them into exemplary aqueducts of mankind's best treasure - humanity...
In Ambazonia, people die for speaking English so they rebel against the francophone government. 900km away in West Togoland people die for speaking French they rebel against the Anglophone government.
Perhaps these four groups of anglophone and francophone rebels and establishment need to have a peace talks, seeing as their goals are congruent
Thank you for the insightful video on this beautiful man. There should be more brave people like him out there. Thank you for doing such wonderful things in the world. bless and hope the best for you
Now i’m in tears ; ( and yet, they do not fall in to helplessness, what a brave spirits! I don’t believe in god but.. God bless them
A man with good heart
Bless them for their work, its a great crime what those separatists do against the innocent children, to rob them of their future. Makes me sad 😔🙏♥️🌏
Those they’re showing us in the video are not Ambazonia separatist fighters. They are government sponsored militias who work alongside Cameroun military to commit crimes and atrocities to tag it on separatist so that propaganda channels will show it to world as terrorists. This video is completely a one sided report.
This is heartbreaking, 2021 ...
If you think about it man will find anything to fight over. It’s such a stupid war.
Did you know their are no English speakers in Cameroon’s congress despite them representing a majority? This is why war is being waged.
Why can’t the government reach an amicable agreement with this separate group, cause a lot of people are dying and educational institution under fire causing massive damage to children education and development.
Because of the 1961 referendum regarding the Southern Cameroons. They believe that the decisions of colonial masters still is binding. So they perpetuate a genocide, the government of Cameroon
This is so sad.
Arrey is a Catholic priest and not a pastor, which is a Protestant title. He is Fr. Arrey
So many kids died. A whole. school was set on fire..They think the blood vengeance won't be taken?
Does anyone know of how of teaching jobs within Amazonia? I seek to teach English, even if I must learn to speak pidgin first.
👍👍👍
WoW the Mayor's got a unique nose 👃👃👃👃
My lovely country, look at what cpdm has turned you to💔
I pray ambas don't kill this brave pastor🙏🏿
Wow
What a shame they just want a education
I can barely understand them. Could you please add the subtitles?
They should look at canada
Vive le Québec libre!
The Canadian prime minister doesn't live in Switzerland does he? All the problems in Francophone Africa are caused by France. Apart from resources being exploited, They hate that English is the dominant language of the world. They don't wna see english being spoken in "their sphere of influence"
Only in Africa, you would find a priest trying to help the children without sleeping with them! Commendable.
That just isn't fair on the many good priests all over the world to imply they're all paeodphiles. The vasy majority are not.
This is a lie! If you read and study more you will that the % of priest that do that is very low, but the media love show the lies. In mslm school has much more and almost nobody talk about why?
What do the separatists think they are accomplishing by hurting the common people.
They talk only about separaties but not talking about the military that has Couse more then then separaties.
Who are the leader of the separatist? Both sides use to live in peace before.
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nice safe schools
She had a baby in the middle of this ?
Nobody trust anyone & no one can trust anybody.
It’s messed up, straight up corrupt.
He is a catholic priest not a pastor🙄
My country . It's so hard to watch. Blame the president he caused this
foreign hands are doing this.
These are just plain thugs!
Allah help us
Kanye West doing something good for once...
Do something good for yourself and go through with it
1st view ✌
2nd here
Second view
The separatists need God!