The Pulaaku Code: A Last Resort in Fighting Highwaymen in Cameroon’s North Province (2003–2011) (Part 2)
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In edition 239 of Afrique Contemporaine, Christian Seignobos examined the cross-border troubles affecting Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and Chad. He described the pastoral communities’ crisis, and the traditional leaders and central governments’ attempts to stem gang-related violence. In Mbororo cattle-herding communities, the highwaymens’ banditry has been made worse by a kind of civil war ( fitna) between the Mbororo, who own livestock, and those who do not. Mbororo living in the Central African Republic have created armed brigades to fight the highwaymen ( zaraguinas), while those living in the Bénoué region of Cameroon’s North Province try to solve their troubles through stoic withdrawal or expiation of past misdeeds.
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