Anglophone crisis: Tuendem Fotso Jessica Stevine caught between the hammer of law enforcement and the anvil of séparatists.

(Nkwenty Jonas) The young girl, only 18 years old was accused by both belligerents of being either an accomplice of secessionists or in collution with the cameroonian armed forces. An ambivalent yet unjusified situation that forced the teenager to seek safety, fearing for her life.

The crisis in the anglophone Regions of Cameroon unfortunately remains a reality. Clashes between the cameroonian armed forces and the separatists groups, continue in several areas of the south-West and North-West regions, causing materials damages and fatalities. Over the years, this crisis has spread beyong these two regions, with serious consequences for the affected localities, for Cameroon and for families. A true tragedy since 2016.

Tuendem Fotso Jessica Stevine is an highly illustrative case. The 18 years-old girl has become a consequence of the total decay of cameroonian society, following this crisis, which has lasted for nearly 10 years. In a romantic relationship with Tabe James, an English speaking cameroonian, Tuendem Fotso Jessica was forced to leave the country, persecuted by both, henchmen of regime in place and the secessionists.

Recap of the facts: while the young woman was in a relationshionship with her anglophone friend, she was falsely accused of facilitating the infiltration and attacks of the Anglophone separatists, due to her proximity to Tabe James, whose felated activities she was unaware of.

In the fighting between the cameroonian army and the Ambozonian separatists, it was indeed revealed that the young man was a fighter of one of the militias operating in the locality in the North-West Région, Dong-Mantung Division . On March 13, 2025 . Tuendem Fotso Jessica regularly stayed in this locality and gone there, for the festivities marking Youth Day, celebrated every February, 11th.

A full-scale manhunt of the teenager then vegan, conducted by the National Police and Regional Intelligence services. In the course of this relentless pursuit, she was unjustly arrested under the fallacious pretext of her complicity closeness with her Anglophone friend, Tabe James. The young girl spent a total of 16 days in the unsanitary cells of a police station of Douala, from April 8, to 24.

A short lived breath of freedom, because against all expectations, the separatists turned against her, suspecting her of being in collution with the Government camp, at the risk of being captured following informations she might share with law enfoncement. More seriously, the Anglophone separatists and everything in thier power to neutralize her for fear that she would divigulge valuable information about thier positions. A sort of settings of scores . Caught in the crossfire, the young girl was spied on followed and everything wiretapped.