Executive Summary. -- I. Introduction. -- II. Rising Political Tensions. -- A. Kamto's Rise and the Acrimonious 2018 Election. -- B. "Dialogue" on the Anglophone Crisis and Prisoner Releases. -- C. Flawed Parliamentary and Local Elections. -- D. COVID-19. -- E. Political Strains Turn Ethnic. -- III. Social Media, Inflammatory Content and Misinformation. -- IV. Limits to Managing Ethnic Tensions, Inflammatory Content and Misinformation. -- A. Government. -- 19 B. Facebook. -- V. Defusing Tensions. -- A. Electoral Reform to Build Political Consensus. -- B. Measures to Avoid Communal Violence. -- 1. Calming ethnic tensions. -- 2. Doing more to reduce inflammatory online content and misinformation. -- VI. Conclusion. -- Appendices
Summary
Two years after Cameroon's contested presidential election, political rivalry has taken a worrying direction as the incumbent's supporters trade ethnic slurs with backers of his main challenger. The government should undertake electoral reforms, bar discrimination and work with social media platforms to curtail hate speech
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"3 December 2020"--Cover
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references
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Also available at website in French
Online resource; title from PDF cover page (International Crisis Group, viewed December 26, 2020)
