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May 4, 2019
The UN Security Council will hold a first informal meetingon Cameroon this month to discuss a worsening humanitarian crisis that has leftthree million people struggling for food.
The United States is organizing the May 13 meeting afterpersuading African countries on the council to drop their initial reluctance totalks on the two-year separatist conflict in Cameroon’s west.
South Africa, a non-permanent council member, had expressedreservations, arguing that the African Union was leading the internationalresponse to the crisis, according to diplomats.
Cameroon is wracked by a conflict between separatists andgovernment forces in its English-speaking west, combined with an influx ofrefugees from the Central African Republic and Nigeria.
More than one in six people in Cameroon — 4.3 million — needhumanitarian aid, an increase of 30 percent from 2018, according to UN aidofficials.
The meeting will have a particular focus on the separatistconflict.More than 560,000 people have been driven fromtheir homes since 2017 including 32,000 who have fled to Nigeria.