France acknowledges role in repression of Cameroon independence movements

<p>Emmanuel Macron writes to Cameroonian president with findings of joint commission on country’s colonial past</p><p>France has acknowledged its role in decades of violent repression of independence movements in Cameroon, the latest stage in a slow process of reckoning with its brutal colonial past.</p><p>In a letter to the Cameroonian president, Paul Biya, dated 30 July, Emmanuel Macron said it was “up to me today to assume the role and responsibility of France in these events”.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/13/france-acknowledges-role-in-repression-of-cameroon-independence-movements">Continue reading...</a>