Non-State Armed Groups and Illicit Economies in West Africa: Anglophone separatists
A Joint ACLED and GI-TOC Report
10 September 2024
The third in a joint series of publications by ACLED and GITOC offers a contemporary analysis of the operations, the organization, the involvement in illicit economies and the financing of the Anglophone separatist armed groups in the Northwest and Southwest regions of Cameroon, as well as their relationships with civilian communities. Drawing on interviews and ACLED event data, the report provides an in-depth picture of the current organization of the Anglophone armed separatist movement, and its operations and use of violence. The report also offers new insights into the separatists’ financing, and specifically their engagement with illicit economies in Northwest and Southwest Cameroon.
